Category Archives: Economy
Biography
The White House website has inserted “did you know?” factoids about President Obama into its biographies of other presidents. For instance, did you know Obama is the Scrooge of presidential spending?
Here’s the Rex Nutting Market Watch piece purporting to show Obama is a tightwad. And here’s Ann Coulter saying Rex is Nuts.
The Facebook IPO is a train wreck so far. There were problems at NASDAQ with the launch but Gordon Crovitz in the WSJ says people just don’t click Facebook ads enough. Then there’s this:
Why did Facebook go public?
They couldn’t figure out the privacy settings either.
Commencement
Dana Milbank reports that our first black, Pacific, gay, woman president elbowed aside a real woman (Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the NYT) to give the commencement address at Barnard. Meanwhile a NYT/CBS poll showed Romney ahead of Obama with women voters.
Weight
Now the science is settled on food. According to a new study, “The Weight of the Nation”, to be shown on HBO, it’s largely the industrialized world’s fault you are fat. And it’s the government’s job to solve the problem. This is from the NY Times:
The films try to reorient conversations about obesity away solely from personal responsibility and toward a combination of environmental circumstances to explain why 70 percent of Americans are, according to federal statistics, either overweight or obese. While personal responsibility is an important piece, “you cannot say that all these people have lost all their willpower,” Mr. Hoffman said.
