Counterparties
Hank Paulson’s call logs. This is the kind of insanity that results when you refuse to use email. — Sorkin
Market Indicators I’d Like to Fluctuate — Colbert
Gasparino’s new book quotes Cayne as saying he gets the best pot in NYC — Dealbreaker
I don’t agree with judging the severity of news errors by whether they “could have moved financial markets” — WRG
Harvard paid $500 million to exit backfired swaps, plus another $425 million over 30-40 years. All Larry’s fault. — Bloomberg
The New York Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs — NYT
Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture? — Reverent
Bercovici: Marcus Brauchli “should resign.” — Daily Finance, TNR
Conde Nast would never tell Ruth Reichl Gourmet’s renewal rate?! Wtf? — NYT
“Bikes are the American Indians to the car’s Christopher Columbus” — Slate
David Cay Johnston wonks out on reinventing the estate tax — Tax Analysts
More confusion from Parker on ’05 Bordeaux — Dr Vino
Holt on Nossiter on wine. Makes me want to buy the book! — NYT
Even more things Levitt & Dubner are wrong about — Real Climate
Charles Kenny: “Television, it turns out, is the kudzu of consumer durables.” — FP
YouTube comment or e.e. cummings? — McSweeney’s
Kudos to The Atlantic’s James Bennet, A-List Editor of the Year — AdAge
Wise Quiggin! How Superfreakeconomics killed contrarianism — CT
The story of the 20 year old with the $183,000 FHA Loan. Just 3.5% down and immediately underwater — TBI
Ezra Klein calls Superfreakonomics a “shoddy statistical work that could literally kill somebody” — WaPo
When the dictionary is wrong, and Bill Walsh is right — The Slot
Eye-opening article about the puzzle of lower healthcare costs in Hawaii — NYT
Scott Raab’s article on John Demjanjuk’s Kafka nightmare — Esquire
The NYT’s caption on a photo of Nova Scotia mentions “lusty pirates.” — NYT
Matt Goldstein writes about Galleon’s edge and touches on the outright shameful Moody’s leak — Reuters
More complications to the “fair use” case over the Obama “HOPE” poster. Not smart, Shepard. — NYT
Nomura’s dress code bans “gay colour nail polish,” “suits of lustrous material.” — Times
The Perfect Brief – Mick Jagger’s 1969 letter to Andy Warhol, assigning the cover design of a hits album — Swiss Miss
Sneaky Microsoft plug-in puts Firefox users at risk — Computerworld



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Thanks for the mention, Felix, but isn’t showing how to simplify taxes anti-wonk?
Never mind unpredictable and ornery–you forgot skanky.
“Bikes are the American Indians to the car’s Christopher Columbus” — Slate.
That’s off.
Why don’t you post a link to Levitt’s and Dubner’s responses to their critics? You’ve posted links to 3 different critiques and reposted your own lengthy criticism of their previous book but can’t bother to post their rebuttals, which include a fairly damning email thread from the guy at Climate Progress.
And I’ll just say that it’s amusing to me that it took some PC heresy to get leftists like Klein to notice that, Hey!, this popular science book isn’t real rigorous!
Funny how that never came up when they were asserting that abortion cut crime…better late than never, I suppose.