things i bought that i love
Mindy Kaling the conspicuous consumption blogger is back! She's a writer for/actress on some television show, right? Whatever, I'm just glad she started posting again.
Links
What I Learned Today
The short version: unless you're Bernanke (heck, especially if you're Bernanke), you need to be reading this.
The long version: written by a curious NYU MBA student, focusing mostly on the economy and business, but in layman's terms. There's stuff in my feed reader that takes five seconds to glance at, and then there's stuff I make sure I have a solid five minutes to read in peace; this is the latter.
Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet
There's great television, and then there's transcendental, coke-binge-fueled genius. I miss it so.
garance doré: une fille comme moi
Garance Doré usually writes in French, so she could be a horrible (or worse, lackluster) writer. But she's hella good when she posts in English, so I'm pretty sure she's beautiful, funny, and an extremely talented photographer and illustrator.*
*This is also known as the "Do I kill her or kidnap her and keep her under my bed in a box and feed her M&M's?" conundrum. Most women are familiar with it.
Fiscal odds and ends
Maureen "Moe" Tkacik was a combative, self-aggrandizing woman-hater on the Gawker network's ladysite Jezebel*; her prose-wrangling has been - surprise, surprise - a much better fit at the flagship property, especially in her intelligently irreverent coverage of Economyintheshittergate 2008.
The Financial Crisis, In 15 Easy Links
The NYT Freakonomics blog takes on the financial crisis in words I can understand:
"For an individual or business that falls behind on payments or needs an increase in short-term credit because of the slowing economy, credit will be much harder to obtain than in recent years. This is going to slow growth. We have not seen this much stress in the financial system since the Great Depression."
Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial Upheavals
Dealbreaker has a funny:
An open question: U.S stocks surged at the end of last week in the "biggest two-day global rally in 38 years" in reaction to government intervention. Why would the market rebound in response to what is essentially a bandaid on a bullet wound?
*Obviously, I might have an opinion on the matter.
The devil you know.