November 2008 Archives

He must have hit his head.

I don't pretend to know just what has to be done. But I suspect that free-marketers need to be less doctrinaire and less simple-mindedly utility-maximizing, and that they should depend less on abstract econometric models. I think they'll have to take much more seriously the task of thinking through what are the right rules of the road for both the private and public sectors. They'll have to figure out what institutional barriers and what monetary, fiscal and legal guardrails are needed for the accountability, transparency and responsibility that allow free markets to work.

And I don't see why conservatives ought to defend a system that permits securitizing mortgages (or car loans) in a way that seems to make the lenders almost unaccountable for the risk while spreading it, toxically, everywhere else. I don't see why a commitment to free markets requires permitting banks or bank-like institutions to leverage their assets at 30 to 1. There's nothing conservative about letting free markets degenerate into something close to Karl Marx's vision of an atomizing, irresponsible and self-devouring capitalism.


Huh. Since I fell off the blogging, it seems there have been developments in integrating content from various other social media into the MT engine.

I've added a plug-in called Action Streams and a cronjob to update it every 15 minutes. Nothing up yet, though. I have successfully added a list of links to my other profiles though, so I'll chalk this up as a limited success. Hopefully, though, a list of my other doings around the Internets will appear on this page, giving everyone a central location from which to obtain their dose of Alexalia.
Jeez. It's been since July that I've done anything with this site. What a waste.

I have a job. I'm with a subcontractor, web project managing for NetApp. It's working out pretty well.

Also, I have a new website: the Urban Values Initiative. Still working out what exactly my intentions are, but I have some good ideas, I think.

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Wednesday

  • Alex tweeted, "finds that the inputs in his life from other people push his happy/aggravation ratio deep into the <1 fractional."