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It looks like I'm going to make my 365 day deadline after all.

Playlists remain a secret until after delivery. Suffice to say that they are awesome. Double awesome with a side of awesome sauce.

Don't know much about history

Meme stolen from Rivendell Rose:

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

Except I know nothing about graphic technique, nor in fact yaoi, so be aware that it'll be a pretty short post.
Plus, by now people are probably sick to tears of hearing about the last film I watched, the last book I read and my political leanings.
So. Make the most of it! Go, cat, go!

Federal Reserve loans banks $200 million. Dean Baker wonders why.

Why wouldn’t we want the banks to be forced to come clean and eat their losses? This is always the policy that the economists advocate when the parties in question are not the big New York banks. Does anyone remember the East Asian financial crisis when the media was full of condemnations of crony capitalism and the IMF insisted imposed stringent conditions on South Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia as a condition of getting bailed out? At that time, everyone insisted on transparency. Aren’t there any economists who still have this perspective? If so, why aren’t their views appearing anywhere in the news?