How the Mind Works: Revelations The New York Review of Books
Serotonin may affect our sense of fairness, scientists report PhysOrg
A post just for Obamistas and Clintonistas Willer Buiter
Barron’s Asks: Bear Market Rally? Barry Ritholtz
Are You On or Off The Bus?? Cassandra
Happy Birthday Proposition 13 San Francisco Chronicle (hat tip Jojo)
Bank Holding Company Stockholders: Even Greater Dilution Awaits Roger Ehrenberg
“Who’s Afraid of Friedrich Hayek?” Mark Thoma
Oil Prices vs. Power of Personality Michael Shedlock
Antidote du jour:
definitely doesn’t look like blogger “angry bear”
From the NY Times Review article re Minds: “Indeed, the National Institutes of Health is now studying whether foods high in fat and sugar should be classified as addictive agents, in the same category as nicotine, alcohol, and cocaine.”
That would be a signficant revelation, with profound implications for so much of what we’ve dwelled upon lately – food – both fast and slow – agribusiness, energy policy, the political class interested in maintaining the status quo and what it wants in the way of a health care system, “tort” reform, freedom to choose…