Posts Tagged ‘Michael Bloomberg’
The “Miami Model” and Bahrain; Europe; Walker
(1) Timoney and Bahrain: (Note today’s possibly irrelevant image–can’t remember where I downloaded it, but it was apparently found in a police van in lower Manhattan recently.) The other day I linked to an article from the Atlantic that gave a useful account of the recent history of police tactics with respect to large protests. ...Read more.
Parade, Sports, Leftovers
(1) Are John Pike’s 15 Minutes Up Yet? I have read one good piece sympathetic toward the “casually pepper-spraying cop”: Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike, at The Atlantic. The point is that it’s structural, and there’s a nice review of changes in police tactics to deal with civil unrest: ...Read more.
More on Academic Kickbacks
When he read my last post, Rob Larson (author of the cover story in the current issue of D&S) forwarded me an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal, Beware of “Independent” Investing Research, and the accompanying graphic (see above). I had been planning to post again on that very issue of economists for hire–the ...Read more.
