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Headline: Student Questions: The Recession and the Middle Class
about 6 hours ago
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8-yr-old's reaction when I told of Adam, Eve, serpent, expulsion, Jesus dying to expiate the sin: "That's the goofiest story I ever heard."
2:06 PM Nov 25th
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Headline: Student Questions: A Global Currency and Getting Out of a Recession
8:00 AM Nov 25th
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Enough John Gaddis for tonight. Reminder: I'm trying to encapsulate the whole of a great (albeit short) book: "The Landscape of History."
5:53 PM Nov 24th
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Gaddis11: Historians practice chaos theory, so "'Physics envy' need not be a problem...because we've been doing a kind of physics all along"
5:51 PM Nov 24th
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Gaddis10 : 'Surprising new forms of collective behav arise from...spontantaneous appearances of increasing levels of complexity" -Wm McNeill
5:49 PM Nov 24th
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Gaddis9: "Survivors tend to be those organisms that are required to adapt frequently - but not too frequently - to the unexpected."
5:46 PM Nov 24th
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Gaddis8: "In complex systems u can never sort out critical variables in advance...only specify them in retrospect & that's tough enuf to do"
5:43 PM Nov 24th
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Gaddis again (cf earlier Tweets): History's like traffic jams: non-linear. Thus, despite soc 'science,' the math that applies: chaos theory.
5:41 PM Nov 24th
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Headline: Student Questions: Obama's Economic Policies
7:19 AM Nov 24th
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Headline: Exactly Who Is the FDIC?
2:24 PM Nov 23rd
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Fr NYT, new Right-wing populist line which the Left might endorse too: 'Mankind shall not be crucified on a cross of Goldman Sachs.'
8:14 AM Nov 23rd
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Stanford econ J Shoven: Measure age from yrs til death not yrs since birth. So my 65=56 in 1970. Same health. That's why 74's the new 65.
7:54 PM Nov 22nd
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Wise woman's response to my q recalls fin crisis: "Know what you'll do in the future?" "That's what the future IS: what you don't know."
7:49 PM Nov 22nd
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More gd news: gold DEALER Charlie Mammoser thinks it's a bubble. for the last time we visited. New story soon.
4:31 PM Nov 20th
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Back@Oakland gold shop w/ John Williams, who said gold's going to $5000/oz&beyond. The good news? US govt has 1/8 of world's total supply.
4:28 PM Nov 20th
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Headline: Should the Gov't Anchor Its Economic Rescue to the Middle-Class Homeowner?
3:10 PM Nov 20th
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Headline: Who Regulates the Student Loan Industry?
3:59 PM Nov 19th
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To SF unemp counselor: I'm good with kids so if PBS caves I could be a nurse, no? 'You need anatomy. W/ comm coll cutbacks, you'd wait yrs'
10:35 PM Nov 18th
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In SF intvwing Nomi Prins on Goldman Sachs yesterday. How can they be doing "God's work," she asks, if 80% of profits now come from trading?
10:27 PM Nov 18th
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- Name Paul Solman
- Location Boston
- Web http://www.pbs.or...
- Bio Business and Economics Correspondent for PBS Newshour
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