January 2011
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What good is Wall Street? →
When the banking system behaves the way it is supposed to—as Pandit says Citi is now behaving—it is akin to a power utility, distributing money (power) to where it is needed and keeping an account of how it is used. Just like power utilities, the big banks have a commanding position in the market, which they can use for the benefit of their customers and the economy at large. But when banks seek...
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The Gender of Money →
So why is it that a mother’s money is more likely to be earmarked for her child’s well-being than the same amount of money in a man’s hands? Some might invoke genetic predispositions to caring, or a strategic advantage women get from investing in their children (anticipating, for instance, their child’s economic support in their old age). But neither of those explanations goes far enough.
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The Difficulty of Discovery (Where Have All The... →
Personally, I’m most convinced by an alternative explanation, which is that our modern problems have gotten so hard – so damn intractable, complicated and multi-disciplinary – that we can no longer solve them by ourselves. The first piece of evidence suggesting that the difficulty of problems is increasing comes from historiometric data on the “peak age of creativity.” It turns out that the peak...
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The Coen brothers: the cartographers of cinema →
From Texas to New York to Minnesota, and now, with True Grit, to the old west – the Coen brothers’ career has been spent mapping the history and geography of America. Tom Shone meets them.
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WatchFlying Lotus makes directorial debut for new Bilal video ‘Levels’
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Taken from the new Pharoahe Monch album ‘W.A.R (We are Renegades)’ which will be out in March!
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WatchBest of 2010 - part 2
[click for download]
Clutchy Hopkins - Truth Seekin’ - The Story Teller The Budos Band - Unbroken, Unshaven - The Budos Band III Woima Collective - Marz - Tezeta Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno - Swing Easy - Dog With A Rope The Books - A Cold Freezin’ Night - The Way Out Flying Lotus - …And the World Laughs With You (feat. Thom Yorke) - Cosmogramma ...
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Why Does Inequality Make the Rich Feel Poorer? →
The net result is a society of winners as whiners, where people who are not only doing fine but doing much better relative to the median than they were a generation ago nonetheless feel left behind.
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WatchFolks, here is the first part of my best of 2010 mixtape [click for download]. Enjoy!
Best of 2010 - part 1
Donso - Tiyamba - Donso Blundetto - Voices with Hindi Zahra - Bad Bad Things Radio Citizen - Hope - Hope And Despair Nneka - Kangpe feat. Wesley Williams - Concrete Jungle Janelle Monáe - Tightrope (Feat. Big Boi) - The ArchAndroid Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me -...
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Let's Get This Straight →
Both sides are, in fact, not ”just as bad,” when it comes to institutionally sanctioned violent and eliminationist rhetoric. An anonymous commenter at Daily Kos and the last Republican vice presidential nominee are not equivalent, no matter how many ridiculously irresponsible members of the media would have us believe otherwise. There is, demonstrably, no leftist equivalent to Sarah...
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Facebook hype will fade →
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The Rise of the New Global Elite →
The lesson of history is that, in the long run, super-elites have two ways to survive: by suppressing dissent or by sharing their wealth. It is obvious which of these would be the better outcome for America, and the world. Let us hope the plutocrats aren’t already too isolated to recognize this. Because, in the end, there can never be a place like Galt’s Gulch.
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Could using less cash drive down crime? →
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Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels? →
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The Man Who Spilled the Secrets →
