New music stifled?
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Online access to recordings and artists' inner thoughts may not be all good news, says Duran Duran's John Taylor
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Lehman Failure Consequences
Wall Street Pit (Free subscription) | yesterday
William Sterling of Trilogy Global Advisors has an interesting new paper on the abrupt changes in financial markets subsequent to Lehman’s bankruptcy on September 15, 2008. Sterling’s paper is in part a response to earlier analyses by John Taylor (2008, 2009) and John Cochrane and Luigi...
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Learn as You Go
The Green Changemakers (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... it’s never too late to learn. This discussion guide will focus on the following articles: John Taylor Gatto, “Take Back Your Education” Julia Putnam, “A Lifelong Search for Real Education” Daniel Fireside, “Life’s Best Lessons are Outside the Classroom” Ron Miller, “Grounded Learning” Parker J. Palmer, “Know Yourself,...
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Net restriction
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Duran Duran (with John Taylor right) were among the biggest acts of the 80sThe internet may have been a miracle for music fans, Duran Duran star John Taylor says, but instant access to decades of recordings and artists' inner thoughts is not all good.In an extract from a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the first message sent over the internet, Taylor explains...
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Winning season looms as possibility for Hornets
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... "Being around Sac State, we haven't had a winning record for awhile," sophomore center John Taylor said. "If we win out, Sac State has a winning record. "It's right there. We have pretty tough opponents left. We have to come out strong." The Hornets did that last Saturday, beating a ranked opponent for the first time since 2004. "It just gives us momentum...
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Sprint won't change early termination fees
Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... charged $140. "We don't think customers who buy smart phones should be penalized," said John Taylor, a spokesman for Sprint. Verizon said its new early termination penalties will take effect November 15 for smart phones and net books, which are getting more expensive. The company said it bears the cost of offering lower upfront prices on those devices and needs the assurance...
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Mean Streets
Kellen's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Blurb... The best paranormal private investigators have been brought together in one volume - and cases don't come any harder than this. Jim Butcher delivers a hard-boiled tale in which Harry Dresden's latest case may be his last. Nightside dweller John Taylor is hired by a woman to find something she lost - her memory. Kat Richardson's Greywalker finds herself in too deep when a...
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A Mormon Image: House of Learning
Times & Seasons (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
My sister studies outside the John Taylor building on the campus of Brigham Young University- Idaho. “..seek learning, even by study and also by faith.” D&C 88:118 by Blake This photograph is part of our ongoing series highlighting Mormon images. Comments to the post are welcome. In addition we invite you to submit your own images to [...]
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Government Failure Versus Market Failure
Incentives Matter (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... since it would represent a recognition of their own deficiencies. Here's how Stanford economist John Taylor summarizes the problem : Cliff Winston of the Brookings Institution carefully reviews three decades of empirical research on a wide range of microeconomic policy studies in his important book Government Failure versus Market Failure . He comes to the same basic conclusion; as...
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Labor Playing Catch-Up For Owens
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A the Blue Moon cafe in Saranac Lake, where Bill Owens took a brief lunch/handshaking break from the campaign trail, I ran into John Taylor, a UAW Local 774 member from Buffalo who is in town to help the Democratic congressional hopeful get out the vote. Taylor and a fellow union member who declined to give his name were weighed down with maps, Owens literature and voter lists....
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Did the stimulus work?
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Jeffrey Miron, Simon Johnson, Mark Thoma and I answer the question here. Here is John Taylor’s answer.
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Etta's Week 3: Some poem links and true empowerment
George Szirtes (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Security... the appearance of too much of which is bad for you... * New GS on web: In today's Poetry Daily , the 'Palladio' poem ; Poetry Daily also carries this article about the New and Collected by John Taylor, originally in the new Antioch Review ; As also at Poetry Daily a substantial biog note , though much of that is scattered here and there on this site anyway. Elsewhere, at Poetry...
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Sometimes the conventional wisdom is right!
Creative Destruction (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
William Sterling, "Looking Back at Lehman: An Empirical Analysis of the Financial Shock and the Effectiveness of Countermeasures." My summary: John Taylor, John Cochrane, and Luigi Zingales say the Lehman Brothers catastrophe didn't cause the financial crisis of fall 2008 after all - instead, they say, it was Hank Paulsen saying there was a financial crisis, and that...