Akkam’s Razor

• slacktivist: She doesn’t care - We've seen this disease before. We've been watching it for eight years now. This is ignorance born of incuriosity. And that incuriosity arises from a lack of empathy. Like President Bush, Gov. Palin doesn't know because she doesn't care.
• OverFed? - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog - Until this past year, the Fed’s balance sheet was simple and clean: basically, it held Treasury bills, and its only liabilities worth mentioning were the money supply (strictly speaking, the monetary base.) And there was next to no risk. Now the Fed holds a vast array of “liquidity tools” — loans under the various emergency programs, the TAF, the TSLF, and all that; and it’s taken on quite a lot of risk.
• The No Votes - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com -

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