Ubuntu Ruined My Life

[There’s a whole bunch of mean­der­ing aca­d­e­mic pon­tif­i­cat­ing and me tak­ing myself too seri­ously. About two thirds of the way down it gets really good, though. I promise. Also, the woman is now online and back in school. –JC] So appar­ently, some­one was try­ing to take online courses, ordered the cheap­est Dell with a CD — which …

Cooler, Wiser

Clearly, any spe­cific assis­tance [to ail­ing finan­cial insti­tu­tions] will have to include penal­ties for those man­agers who have left their insti­tu­tions over­ex­posed. Central bank cred­i­bil­ity in enforc­ing these penal­ties will go a long way in lim­it­ing moral haz­ard. Raghuram Rajan in 2005, explain­ing how to pick up the pieces after the 2008 finan­cial col­lapse (via …

Just… Wow

By select­ing Tim Geithner as his Treasury sec­re­tary, Barack Obama has opted for a fig­ure who plau­si­bly rep­re­sents change while also offer­ing a high degree of con­ti­nu­ity with both the Paulson Treasury and its Clinton admin­is­tra­tion pre-decessors. Krishna Guha, Geithner ready for top job as Treasury chief, Financial Times, 2009-11-23 How can you read that …