The Lippard Blog

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2019. Graham T. Allison, Destined for War: Can Ame...

Veteran software tester Abe Heward has started up a blog on software testing, which I'm sure will also include many items of epistemolog...

Todd Wood of the Center for Origins Research at Bryan College has gotten around to doing what I haven't done, updating my analysis of t...

I haven't posted one of these things in a while, so I figured it was about time. The big peak was in March, with a total of 10,725 that ...

In April 2009, the city of Phoenix received $40 million in federal stimulus money under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. This progra...

From the Technology Quarterly report in the June 6-12, 2009 issue of The Economist , a few articles of interest: Gasoline/compressed-air hyb...

The Center for Public Integrity, an organization I support, has just published the results of an investigation into the roots of the recent ...

A nice visual depiction of what it amounts to. (Via The Agitator .)

At the Financial Times (with more detail for each item): 1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. 2. No socia...

A banker who resisted the urge to invest in toxic assets during the boom is cleaning up during the bust . Andy Beal of Beal Bank in Plano, ...

Despite the common concern that immigrants to the U.S. take jobs that would otherwise go to American citizens, immigrants actually create jo...

$10.1 billion in federal stimulus money has been released to the states by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Arizona is r...

I recently wrote about how Chase Bank's inflexible systems just cost it money by not allowing me to make a $100 payment to my mortgage a...

My mortgage has been purchased by Chase Bank a couple of times (after the first time, I refinanced with another bank and then Chase bought m...

In a recent paper, Jamie Napier and John Jost argue that the reason conservatives are happier than liberals is that they are, for ideologica...

The creation of jobs in the economy is neither the president's responsibility nor within his power to do anything other than influence t...

"Anchoring" is the psychological effect that, when presented with a sample number prior to being asked to estimate some quantity, ...

In a fiendishly clever plan, Credit Suisse Group AG has found a way to reduce its exposure to toxic securities and transfer risk off its bal...

The traditional bank lobby, filled with expensive marble and and furnishings, is designed to signal to the customer that the bank is stable ...

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