“It is natural for men, who wish to hasten the adoption of a measure, to tell us, now is the crisis—now is the critical moment which must be seized or all will be lost; and to shut the door against free enquiry, whenever conscious the thing presented has defects in it, which time and investigation will probably discover.”
A history of US government bailouts. This is really interesting to me as it lists both the circumstances that preceded events like the Savings & Loan and Chrysler bailouts as well as the aftermath.
It also details where money from 2008’s half-dozen bailouts disappeared to.
I love this digital TV switch flowchart. For all the ridiculous “Don’t get cut off!” commercials that our tax dollars are sponsoring via the FCC, it’s remarkable how much people have freaked out over the switch due to simple lack of easy-to-digest information.
(via Consumerist.)
A Visual Guide To The Financial Crisis. A thorough flow chart of how the financial crisis unfolded and essentially turned into a feedback loop. It’s really remarkable just how perfect of a storm this all is. (Click through to see the chart at a readable size.)
(via Mint.)
Start filming homelessness in America. It’s almost as important as filming celebrities.
Love this photo.
(via inothernews.)
Caught in Transit: The Rochester Border Patrol Station
An absolutely phenomenal 4 minute film that presents many sides of the immigration situation in Rochester, NY.
“Somebody ought to call Steve Jobs, who doesn’t need to be bribed to do innovation, and ask him if he’d like to do national service and run a car company for a year. I’d bet it wouldn’t take him much longer than that to come up with the G.M. iCar.”
— Thomas Friedman on bailing out the U.S. auto industry.
