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Diving with seal bombs
There were about ten bright boats anchored just outside of the marine preserve, about a mile from where we were. They are there for the same reason we were - the squid run. Lisa, Mani, and I went for …
Get tougher on banks
Planet Money has a great segment called Get Tougher, Please . Give it a listen. Economist Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute argues the financial reforms are way too wimpy - we need to get tough on …
9.7 trillion
The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s ho…
Keynes testing
NPR/PRI has some great stories on the return of Keynes theories, and possibly the very first test of them. This American Life: 373: The New Boss - Stories about what happens when someone new takes ove…
Spend your way to prosperity
I've been meaning to write a post about this, but Caroline Baum has written many of the same points I had in a piece for Bloomberg called "Economic Cures Are Like Booze for an Alcoholic" . "...the U.S…
Diving Islas Coronados with the sea lions
Photos of diving Islas Coronados with the sea lions Adam and I headed out with Waterhorse to visit the Coronado Islands just off Tijuana's coast. The ride back was a bit rough, but overall it was a re…
Inconvenient Depressions
David A. Rosenberg from Merrill Lynch has released an 11 page document called "Some inconvenient truths" . It is worth a read for its frank discussion of our current economic condition. Depressions ar…
Fish farms in San Diego
The UT has some positive words (in fact, it sounds a little like a press release) about a fish farm proposal from Hubbs-SeaWorld. The fish farm would be located off Mission Beach and would grow stripe…
New photos
I finally got around to posting some photos from a few weeks back: Photos of tide pooling at Point Loma Photos of diving La Jolla Shores (Jan 3rd & 14th)
Skellys in the closet
" Just one day after George W. Bush left office, an NSA whistleblower has revealed that the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program targeted U.S. journalists, and vacuumed in all d…