Wednesday 10 June Links

Is Educational Failures Thwarting American Technological Innovation ?

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/06/education-and-technology-supply-demand-and-income-inequality.html

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/09_24/b4135000953288.htm


The Federal Reserve is Indeed Broken: One Viewpoint on Addressing That

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/06/eight-step-program-to-improve-feds.html


What was Once Was For Phoenix Can Never Be Again: The Lost Future of The Valley of the Sun

http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2009/06/phoenix-101-lost-opportunities.html


Vermont's Bernie Sanders: The Ideal for What a US Senator Should Be

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/440938/a_seat_at_the_table_for_single_payer

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/health-care-is-a-right-no_b_212770.html


The Monsters of Evil Strike Hard at Health Care Insurance Reforms Efforts

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/08/reich/


The Biggest Monster of All, Communist China, Lurks Mightily

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE5560M120090607


The Eternal Abyss of the American Federal Government Budget Deficit

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/economy/10leonhardt.html?hp

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/09/business/economy/20090610-leonhardt-graphic.html


Are the TARP Repayments a Ruse or Worse ?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soundeconomywithjontalton
/2009318322_why_the_bank_bailout_repayment.html

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/06/treasury-ten-large-banks-can-repay-68.html


Another Stimulus Is Likely to be Needed in the Coming Months

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/06/do_we_really_need_another_stimulus_already.php


Cash for Clunkers Legislation Draws Closer to Reality

http://www.freep.com/article/20090609/BUSINESS01/90609078


The Increasing Life in the Workplace is Just Part Time

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/06/08/56756/the-part-timezation-of-america/?source=rss


Arguing Successfully Against Krugman

http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/economics-and-demography/david-takes-on-goliath-and-loses-the-ferguson-krugman-exchange/


The Best is Behind Us and Ahead Lies Only The Worst

http://agonist.org/brian_downing/20090608/the_decline_and_fall_of_the_baby_boom_empire


Outer Space Scientific Discovery

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090608/sc_space/arealwhopperblackholeismostmassiveknown


Superb Economic Analysis

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-jobless-recovery-really-means.html


Significant Supreme Court Ruling on Conflict of Interest Issues with Judiciary

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us/politics/09scotus.html


Interstate 80 Through Wyoming Under Consideration to Become a Tolled Highway

http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/06/09/news/wyoming/42-i80.txt


Sixtieth Anniversary of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four Being Published

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/06/dayintech_0608/


Long Overdue Further Regulation of Tobacco Industry Nears

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-08-tobacco_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip


The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of American Corporations

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/ConsumerActionGuide/10-companies-that-treat-you-right.aspx

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/ConsumerActionGuide/how-companies-were-ranked.aspx

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SmartSpending/ConsumerActionGuide/the-customer-service-hall-of-shame-2009.aspx



The End of Middle Sized GM Trucks Announced

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2009-06-08-GM-trucks_N.htm


Corporate Welfare Utterly Bad for Americans

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/06/too-big-to-be-restructured.html


Credit Disasters Revisited

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/a-brief-history-of-credit-disasters/


The Best and Worst Cities to Be Living In

http://www.eiuresources.com/mediadir/default.asp?PR=2009060801


Disturbing Scientific Finding

http://news.aol.com/article/large-mammal-migrations-disappearing/520190?icid=main|main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%
2Farticle%2Flarge-mammal-migrations-disappearing%2F520190


Making a Choice on High Speed Rail in the Mohave

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/09/reid-sides-desert-xpress-fast-train-option/


The Beautiful Wonders of Nature Captured on Camera

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/06/rare-snow-leopards-caught-on-camera.html


Place Worth Visiting in the Northern Rockies

http://www.beartoothnaturecenter.org/Site/Welcome.html


If You Liked Sims Games, More are on the Way

http://247wallst.com/2009/06/09/cant-kill-the-sims-erts-aapl/#more-37165


The Peaceful Beauty of Slow Cooked Southern Barbeque

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/dining/10United.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all


The Saddest News of the Day

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/06/plastics-cigarettes-food-packaging-littering-the-worlds-oceans.html


The Nicest Story of the Day

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/garden/04cabin.html?hpw=&pagewanted=all


Copying, Not Creating, Seems to be the Thrust in Today's Hollywood

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-06-09-remakes_N.htm


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