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- Reading List of the Day: Sustainability (April 2010)
- Reading List: Natural Gas Drilling Edition
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- Fatima Cigarette Ad from Dragnet
- Reading of the Day 14 March 2010
- Photo of the Day: Honey Bee Visiting a Red Clover Flower
- Readings of the Day 12 March 2010
- Economic Inequality Matters
- Photo of the Day: Hillary Clinton During the 2008 St. Patrick’s Day Parade
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Reading List: Natural Gas Drilling Edition
Posted on March 29, 2010 | No CommentsNatural gas mining has recently been entering a boom period in Pennsylvania, because of a technique called “fracking” that allows drillers to pump hundreds of thousands of gallons of salt... -
Fatima Cigarette Ad from Dragnet
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No CommentsThis audo advertisement (click the Fatima picture for the audio) for Fatima cigarettes originally aired on April 15, 1954 during a Dragnet episode called “The Big Pug.” Fatima, a Liggett... -
Review of ECONned by Yves Smith
Posted on March 5, 2010 | No CommentsOutsourced to James Kwak of the excellent Baseline Scenario blog who writes that Yves Smith in ECONned : describes how trading in CDOs built out of mortgage-backed securities drove mortgage...
