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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:23:58 GMT--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="/universal/styles/feed.css"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Realitybase Journal - Comments</title><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/</link><description></description><copyright></copyright><language>en-US</language><generator>Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</generator><item><title>Christine comments on Atmospheric CO2 measurements by satellites start next month.</title><author>Christine</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:37:17 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/12/2/atmospheric-co2-measurements-by-satellites-start-next-month.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2501270</guid><description><![CDATA[Interesting post Roger, but from what I learned about people who don't want to believe environmental bad news, they'll find some way to refute it...or it will be buried (along with us).]]></description></item><item><title>christine comments on Cartoonists get economists. Why can’t economists?</title><author>christine</author><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:30:29 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/11/23/cartoonists-get-economists-why-cant-economists.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2468412</guid><description><![CDATA[Now we need Wiley to do one just about like that for international lawyers and their fictions of customary law and opino juris....]]></description></item><item><title>Skeptic comments on Obama rounds up the usual suspects</title><author>Skeptic</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:17:48 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/9/20/obama-rounds-up-the-usual-suspects.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2420875</guid><description><![CDATA[PR,<br/><br/>Interesting.  I'm gonna guess he didn't bring it up.  <br/><br/>Thanks for the quotation.]]></description></item><item><title>PR comments on Obama rounds up the usual suspects</title><author>PR</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:33:47 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/9/20/obama-rounds-up-the-usual-suspects.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2420534</guid><description><![CDATA[I wonder if Stiglitz offered any insight on the claim, in his 2002 'Fannie Mae Papers' article with Orszag and Orszag, that: &quot;Given this, the expected monetary costs of exposure to GSE insolvency are relatively small - even given very large levels of outstanding GSE debt and even assuming that the government would bear the cost of all GSE debt in the case of insolvency. For example, if the probability of the stress test conditions occurring is less than one in 500,000, and if the GSEs hold sufficient capital to withstand the stress test, the implication is that the expected cost to the government of providing an explicit government guarantee on $1 trillion in GSE debt is less than $2 million. To be sure, it is difficult to analyze extremely low-probability events, such as the one embodied in the stress test. Even if the analysis is off by an order of magnitude, however, the expected cost to the government is still very modest.&quot; Ex-post it looks like his analysis was off by 5 orders of magnitude.]]></description></item><item><title>Skeptic comments on Obama rounds up the usual suspects</title><author>Skeptic</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:48:24 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/9/20/obama-rounds-up-the-usual-suspects.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2420481</guid><description><![CDATA[Ken (Angry Bear?),<br/><br/>I really don't know much about Sperling except that he was a Bill Clinton economic advisor from the 1992 campaign to 2001.  In the absence of other information I assume he was DLC and comfortable with Clinton economic policies.  <br/><br/>Others, including Rubin and Summers, seem to be testing the mea culpa cure.  But, in the end, when confronted with a new problem, people tend to fall back on what they &quot;know.&quot;  (See the Josh Billings quote in the title to this blog.)  That could be a problem I wish we didn't have.  <br/><br/>Thanks for commenting.]]></description></item><item><title>Ken Houghton comments on Obama rounds up the usual suspects</title><author>Ken Houghton</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/9/20/obama-rounds-up-the-usual-suspects.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2419877</guid><description><![CDATA[Did you miss Gene Sperling on the list?  (Even ignoring Summers, who wouldn't work at Chicago, but fits the rest of the description.)<br/><br/>Most interesting name on the list,though, was Paul O'Neill, whose reputation appears to be being rehabilitated through his expressions of guilt more than his actions.]]></description></item><item><title>christine comments on Joe the Plumber</title><author>christine</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:46:04 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/11/14/joe-the-plumber.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2419771</guid><description><![CDATA[Roger, apparently he has a record contract now!]]></description></item><item><title>christine comments on George Soros explains the financial crisis</title><author>christine</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:45:16 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/11/15/george-soros-explains-the-financial-crisis.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2419770</guid><description><![CDATA[Remember, the US was going to be the great &quot;service&quot; economy! It is thrilling to think that the financial services industry will be a smaller part of the economy. We might end up with a &quot;real&quot; economy with some industry and manufacturing again. And, it is especially important that it be efficient manufacturing, not the farce that our auto industry is now. Survival of the fittest dictates that the suits in the financial industry should try to get blue collar jobs now.]]></description></item><item><title>Rob Stuart comments on George Soros explains the financial crisis</title><author>Rob Stuart</author><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/11/15/george-soros-explains-the-financial-crisis.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2419242</guid><description><![CDATA[More of George Soros writings and interviews can be found at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.georgesoros.com">http://www.georgesoros.com</a>]]></description></item><item><title>christine comments on If acres could vote</title><author>christine</author><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:04:19 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2008/11/11/if-acres-could-vote.html#comments</link><guid isPermaLink="false">173103:1648616:comment/2380971</guid><description><![CDATA[That's a really interesting map. Between that, and the fact that 54 million people STILL voted for McCain and PALIN, I wonder what, as citizens, we should be doing to raise the educational/consciousness level to steer the US from going to the dark side in the future. I now believe that after Vietnam we all let down our guard and went back to our lives where the right wing hardened themselves to take over. And, they did from Reagan on..Clinton was a blip who looked good because of the high tech boom. Now, as someone used to say to me, we need to learn to sprint while we are ahead. I know you can't always be in a sprint, but I do think that we need to move into a different stage of permanent guard.]]></description></item></channel></rss>