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3. 1000 years of trade history: globalization is political first, technological second.
4. Blogger House makes the front page of the NYT Style section.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 10, 2008 at 01:12 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
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Microfinance has led us to focus on lending, but it can be hard for young companies to get big purely on bank loans, which consume cash flow that could be reinvested in the business. Supplying the missing middle will require backers who want to invest in companies rather than just lend to them.
Someone call the Modigliani-Miller police!
Posted by: eddie at Mar 10, 2008 1:28:30 PM
Endless successes by law enforcement against drug traffickers has had little apparent effect on the long term prospects for the drug trade. Why should these blows to the FARC be expected to net any long term gains?
Posted by: Mercutio at Mar 10, 2008 1:34:19 PM
Am I the only one who think that both Ecuador and Venezuela (or rather its leadership, not the people) are in the wrong here, and that Columbia was fully within its rights to attack a terrorist camp harbored in another country when that country (i.e. Ecuador) was unwilling or unable to stop them?
And of course having Chavez giving aid to terrorists is quite damning.
Posted by: happyjuggler0 at Mar 10, 2008 1:40:24 PM
That blogger house article should have also mentioned how these couch-ensconced bloggers all rave about the gritty realism of inner-city dynamics captured so faithfully by David Simon in "The Wire".
Posted by: zai at Mar 10, 2008 2:30:21 PM
I agree, zai. The author should have read stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.
Posted by: josh at Mar 10, 2008 2:40:48 PM
re: the 1000 years of trade history
glad to see economists looking at this. one of my favorite bloggers wrote this in his weekly column
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/mar/09/americas-discipline-globalizations-survival/
Posted by: oops at Mar 10, 2008 3:15:13 PM
