With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

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There he was, just another CEO with no experience in a particular product, taking over and ruining a company, and then walking away scot-free and smiling.Other employees were just as useless. They wanted to color and glitter, but didn’t really invest their energy into the end product, demonstrating how a weak link can bring a company down.

But the real stress came when the planes were launched outside and two judges…

“The dramatic collapse of seven the nation’s financial giants is sure to rock Washington’s influence economy: In little more than a decade, the Unlucky Seven have spent an eye-popping $314 million to influence decision makers.So far this year, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Financial Corporation have spent nearly $18 million lobbying Congress and another $1.5 million contributing to federal candidates through corporate political action committees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.”

Bo Goes
by Paul Bass | September 16, 2008 12:03 PM

Rosa DeLauro’s GOP opponent (you mean you didn’t know she had one?) said he’s headed for victory. He’s just not sure when.

Officially Boaz ItsHaky is running for U.S. Congress in this fall’s election in New Haven’s Third Congressional District. He’d like to take office on Jan. 1, 2009.

…To disrupt markets is to tamper with the unseen source of the harmony that is all around us.

The spontaneous emergence of social cooperation—the emergence of a system vastly more complex, responsive and efficient than any government could organize—is not universally acknowledged or appreciated. It discomforts a certain political sensibility, the one that exaggerates the importance of government and the competence of the political class.

Government is important in establishing the legal framework for markets to function. The most competent political class allows markets to work wonders that government cannot replicate. Hayek, a 1974 Nobel laureate in economics, said, “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” People, and especially political people, are rarely grateful to be taught their limits. That is why economics is called the dismal science.

Note: Susan Hockfield is president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “… On September 10, 2008 she testified on this subject before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

REIMAGINING ENERGY
By Susan Hockfield

…For America to win the war that was to come, it had no choice but to make aggressive, focused investments in basic science. The case was so compelling that Roosevelt approved it in 10 minutes. From radar to the Manhattan Project, the innovations that decision unleashed produced the military tools that won the war.

That same presidential decision launched the enduring partnership between the federal government and research universities, a partnership that has vastly enhanced America’s military capabilities and security, initiated many important industries, produced countless medical advances and spawned virtually all of the technologies that account for our modern quality of life.

Today, the United States is tangled in a triple knot: a shaky economy, battered by volatile energy prices; world politics weighed down by issues of energy consumption and security; and mounting evidence of global climate change.

…The potential gains — from the economy to global security to the climate — are boundless. Other nations are also chasing these technologies. We must be first to market with the most innovative solutions. We must make sure that in the energy technology markets of the future, we have the power to invent, produce and sell — not the obligation to buy.”