Before I go to my mail, I want to point out a neat little summary from CNN on the latest financial crisis: Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs).
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Lay Yer Dollar Down
This humble essay is based on a simple fact that we might all find a bit fascinating, and the reasons why it happened. The fact in front of us is this: The Euro is now worth $1.47 and still rising fast. To see this over the last five years, take a gander at the currency translation chart:
Smarts
I’ve been hearing for twenty years that the future of the USofA belonged to “knowledge workers” – people who are visionaries who break outside of the usual boxes we live our lives in.
Sad that it’s all bullshit.
Local
All politics is local, but local politics is plain personal.
Yesterday was the culmination of our city council election cycle in Saint Paul. The great mystery of Democracy worked its way across our city as people did their part to confound all the expert predictions. In the end, it wasn’t all that surprising, with slate of DFL candidates of various kinds elected in all 7 wards and 3 of the 4 open School Board slots (DFL is the Minnesota term for Democrats, the result of a merger between the Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party some 60 years ago).
Elections
Today is the day I answer mail.
I don’t have much to say, except thanks to all the people that voted for me in the Best Literature Blog contest at weblog awards:
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 