Monthly Archives: December 2008
A magazine I want to revive
So apparently during the ’20s and’30s there was a magazine like The New Yorker that was based in Chicago, but it was swept into the dustbin of history until UofC cultural historian Neil Harris stumbled upon the archives a few … Continue reading
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Bloomberg’s Recipe for Famine
Last week I highlighted a great piece of Bloomberg reporting on America’s billions-wasted, failed agriculture policy. Since then, the rest of the seven-part series, Recipe for Famine, has been published online. Because Bloomberg did such a poor job of presenting … Continue reading
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Houston economy sputtering
I had a Fast Company story come out last week on Houston’s $40m effort to shield itself from the current bear market, and to become less economically reliant on the volatile oil industry. It’s hard to predict how much a … Continue reading
American corporations enriched, African children die of starvation
Normally, a headline like the one above would be a gross exaggeration, and it would almost never appear in a mainstream U.S. publication. But lo and behold, the actual headline of a Bloomberg story by Alan Bjerga only just barely … Continue reading
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Low-hanging public health fruit
I have such a technocrat’s-eye view of public policy that I’m constantly astounded at how often I come across fully addressable problems that are killing millions of people. I’m not talking about complex issues like urban poverty whose roots we … Continue reading
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Ryan Blitstein is moving to RyanBlitstein.com
I’m migrating this blog over to RyanBlitstein.com, so I can integrate my blogging directly into the main site. What does this mean for you? If you’re a subscriber, the new RSS Feed is here: http://ryanblitstein.com/?feed=rss2 If you’re a semi-regular reader, … Continue reading →
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