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04 Oct 09

Understanding the Anxious Mind - NYTimes.com

Kagan often talks about the three ways to identify an emotion: the physiological brain state, the way an individual describes the feeling and the behavior the feeling leads to.

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07 Jul 09

Op-Ed Columnist - In Search of Dignity - NYTimes.com

Washington absorbed, and later came to personify what you might call the dignity code. The code was based on the same premise as the nation’s Constitution — that human beings are flawed creatures who live in constant peril of falling into disasters caused by their own passions. Artificial systems have to be created to balance and restrain their desires.

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11 Apr 09

Showdown Seen Between Banks and Regulators - Must Sell and Pay Back

This answers a question I've had - what will make the banks sell those toxic assets at rates suitable for the government to buy - answer - the Stress Test results!!

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  • Meanwhile, the Obama administration wants weaker banks to move more quickly to relieve their balance sheets of the toxic assets, the home loans and mortgage bonds that nobody wants to buy right now. But the banks are resisting because they would have to book big losses.

    Finally, there is increasing anxiety in the industry that the administration could use the stress tests of the 19 biggest banks, due to be completed in the next three weeks, to insist on management changes, just as it did with General Motors when officials forced the resignation of its chief executive after examining that company’s books.

17 Mar 09

Daily Kos: So, I Gots Me a Econ Degree....

  • The less we do the better off we all are.
  • account human emotions of empathy and altruism
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