Category Archives: Not economics

I’ve been meaning to write something here about biking in New York, now that I commute to work every day. Yes, it’s true: I’ve taken a full-time job at Roubini Global Economics, the public face of which is writing Economonitor. … Continue reading →

Here’s a challenge for those who consider themselves web-savvy: tell me the weekly home delivery rates for the New York Times. If you can’t do that, then give me the weekly home delivery rates for any other newspaper, along with … Continue reading →

Jason Calacanis is always good for a laugh: Jason Calacanis, September 18: Nice knowing you YouTube. YouTube is the new Napster and their fate will be the same. I don’t think any of the big media companies are desperate enough … Continue reading →

I spent a large chunk of the day today waiting in various rooms in a large office building in Garden City, Long Island. It was all worth it in the end, though, because I left said building with a green … Continue reading →

I’m going to be in London. On the same evening, in New York, I could go to talks by Esteemed Latinist Riordan Roett, on "The Emerging Radical Left in Latin America" Chris Anderson and Lawrence Lessig, on The Long Tail … Continue reading →

Verlyn Klinkenborg visits a luxury game resort in Africa, and wonders at the human cost of setting aside so much land (over 540 square miles) for game: At $1,500 a night, Sasakwa is one of the most luxurious resorts in … Continue reading →

Oh, never mind the ins and outs of the diaeresis: here’s something even more boring. This year, as last year, the annual New Yorker Fashion Style Issue has arrived on newsstands and in mailboxes a week after New York Fashion … Continue reading →

I’m sticking to my decision not to blog the WTC site much any more, because I just find the whole thing far too depressing, and I think the catalogue of incompetence has been pretty clearly laid out at this point … Continue reading →

Is live. There are still glitches – let me know especially if you’re having any troubles with the RSS feed. And economonitor.com won’t point there for a couple of days at least. But check it out, and let me know … Continue reading →

January 9 was an unseasonably warm day in Brewster, NY, a small town near the Connecticut border. As on most days, a number of day-laborers gathered in the village center, hoping for some kind of work, probably in construction. When … Continue reading →

So I’m going to be blogging a lot more from now on, which means, weirdly enough, that I might be blogging here even less than I did over this very light-in-posting summer. We’ll see. I’ve taken a job at RGE … Continue reading →

So Jack Shafer has now weighed in, as we all knew he inevitably would, on l’affaire Lee Siegel. But despite the fact that he’s late to the game, he really Doesn’t Get It. Shafer’s problem is that he thinks that … Continue reading →