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And they don't have a lot of him on the road five more hours when the school year ends. satisfaction of giving them 25 There seems no good solution.
sympathy for the stress the (GM) one Saturday. Although they will be together, years of my life and not get "We built this place and worked
people are feeling these days." On Sundays, he heads back at Morrison does not feel secure. anything in return." so hard to get it to where it is, so
——— about 1 p.m. — 39 hours after "This plant is no safer (from Like others, he has his eye on do you want to leave?" she says,
After seven months of arriving. downsizing) than any other," he the prize: the 30-year finish line. glancing outside at the tranquil
commuting, Brad Morrison "I'm worn down," Morrison says. says. "I don't take my job for Dohner is among dozens of snow-covered countryside where
measures his world in numbers. "You never get any rest. You're granted anymore. ... Do I regret Janesville commuters who form the dogs frolic and horses graze.
—169,000 miles (272,000 always on the move. ... It's hard working for them? No. It's good a caravan every Saturday "But some days," she says, "I
kilometers): The odometer to have a family life or marriage. money. It was a good company morning to make the 275-mile think we should have all gone as
reading on his 2002 Silverado. Try to be a husband or father at back then. It still is." (440-kilometer) trek home. (He a family."
—$180: The cost of gas for 500 miles (805 kilometers) "The auto industry is a lot like a turned down a GM job in ———
weekly trips between Fairfax away." roller coaster," he adds. "When Kansas. The drive was too long, Steve Kerl now knows about the
(just outside Kansas City) and He never considers skipping a the going is good and you're at he said.) rodeo, the Texas Rangers and
Wisconsin. weekend. "I don't know how a the top, everything is boom. Soon, one of his laid-off traffic jams — all part of his new
—Six years, two months. That is wife or kids can be too much of a When it's times like this, you're brothers will join him in Indiana; surroundings.
when Morrison will have 30 hassle," he says. "The hassle is at the bottom. But I still feel another still is waiting. Their He works at the GM plant in
years at GM and can retire with a just not having them with me." fortunate even to be there. I can father, John Sr., heads United Arlington, Texas. His home
full pension. He'll be 49 then. Morrison and his wife, a school still hold on. And I count my Auto Workers Union Local 95. remains in Janesville, about
Morrison started at GM as a aide, talk several times a day. In blessings for that." With Dohner gone, his wife, 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers)
teen, married his high school between, they text each other ——— Jane, has become skilled at away, making it impossible to
sweetheart, Sarah, and they had with endearing "I miss you" and John Dohner can be forgiven if everything from repairing water return more than a handful of
three children. With "two in "I love you" messages. "We're he has that feeling of deja vu tanks to installing furnace filters. times in the past year, although
college and one in braces," he hopeless romantics," he says. when he pulls into the parking Her day starts at 4:45 a.m., when his wife, Kristy, and two
says, he didn't consider changing She concurs: "He's my best lot of the GM plant outside Fort she and the children feed the children have visited.
careers. friend." Wayne, Indiana. dogs, rabbits, cows, chickens and When Kerl first drove down last
"I'm kind of trapped now," he But living apart is more than an He has been there before. horses. The two boys take care March with his wife, they talked
says. emotional strain. It is expensive, Decades ago. of their dad's snow plow several times about turning
With his shock of white-blond too. Then a fresh-faced 20-year-old, business. Dohner still keeps up around. He forged on, but his
hair, Morrison looks a decade Morrison refinanced his house Dohner moved from Janesville to his duties as chairman of the tiny wife didn't like what she saw, so
younger than 43 but says 24 to free up more money for Indiana, following his job township (population 800), using she returned home.
years of stooping, lifting car monthly expenses that include building pickup trucks. He vacation days to attend monthly If it is any comfort, Kerl can
parts and standing have taken a gas — $720 when he drives returned to Janesville when a meetings. look around the factory floor and
toll — three surgeries on his alone — and $425 in rent and spot opened seven years later. On Sundays, Jane gives her see others who have picked up
knees, one on his left shoulder, utilities for an apartment he Now he is reversing course as a husband spaghetti casseroles, stakes, coming from Michigan,
another on his left wrist. shares with another Janesville 44-year-old family man with a brownies and other dishes for the Tennessee, Missouri and, of
Now, he says, there's a grueling transplant. (GM, in many cases, wife, three kids (21, 17 and 15), week, and waves goodbye. course, Wisconsin.
Monday to Friday work provides some compensation for a house, a 13-acre (5-hectare) It is much easier than last Kerl says he transferred to
schedule, heading home at 2:40, workers who relocate.) farm and a good life almost 300 summer. She sat on the front Texas because it was the only
arriving around 10 p.m., often This is temporary. miles (480 kilometers) and one porch and cried the first time he option then and auto jobs were
too wired to sleep. On Saturdays, The Morrisons decided they do time zone away. It is a life he is left. "You can't think of five fast disappearing. "I figured it
it is reconnect-with-the-family not want to live this way; they not about to abandon. years," she says. "I think I can't would be better being on the
time. And that can mean more plan to sell their Wisconsin Ditto for his job. do it for so long. ... I just texted inside looking out rather than the
driving: His 15-year-old son's house, and Sarah and their "I'm not going to walk away," he him Thursday night and said,
recent choral competition put youngest son, Austin, will move says. "I'm not giving them the `This stinks."' 1,000-MILE page 25
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NYC bomb plotter plea deal might help broaden case (AP)
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) organization. The 25-year-old, Denver suburbs and cooked up stayed. Zazi was arrested. a similar lying charge.
Submitted at 2/23/2010 3:55:53 AM part of what prosecutors consider in a Colorado hotel room. He One of the people familiar with Authorities say the cabbie and
one of the most serious U.S. then drove the materials to New the investigation said that Zazi another former high school
Message from fivefilters.org: If terror threats since the attacks on York just before the eighth told prosecutors that he made classmate of Zazi's, Adis
you can, please donate to the full Sept. 11, 2001, faces life in anniversary of the Sept. 11 roughly 2 pounds of a powerful Medunjanin, traveled to Pakistan
-text RSS service so we can prison without parole when he's attacks. and highly unstable explosive with Zazi. Medunjanin has
continue developing it. sentenced in June. His plan was to assemble the called triacetone triperoxide, or pleaded not guilty to charges he
NEW YORK – Distressed over The jailed Zazi had recently bombs over the weekend and TATP. The same explosive was conspired to kill U.S. soldiers in
the deaths of civilians in his volunteered information about detonate them within days. used by would-be shoe bomber Afghanistan and remains jailed.
native Afghanistan, a man who the bomb plot in the first step Asked by federal Judge Richard Reid in 2001 and by the Officials earlier confirmed
once operated a coffee cart near t o w a r d a p l e a d e a l , T h e Raymond J. Dearie on Monday if terrorists who carried out the Zazi's uncle had been arraigned
the World Trade Center site Associated Press learned earlier he had been willing to be a London bombings that killed 52 on a felony count in secret, a
hatched a plan to join the Taliban this month from officials who suicide bomber, Zazi said, "Yes, people in 2005. sign he could be cooperating.
and fight the U.S. military. spoke on condition of anonymity your honor." Zazi decided to cooperate after Holder used the case to rebut
Najibullah Zazi traveled to because the terror investigation While entering the city, Zazi being warned that his mother Republican critics who've said
Pakistan in August 2008 but was ongoing. His cooperation was stopped by police for a could face criminal immigration the Democratic administration
never made it to Afghanistan. Al suggests prosecutors hope to routine traffic violation on the charges, one of the people should try such terrorism
-Qaida operatives spotted him. expand the case and bring George Washington Bridge, familiar with his case told the suspects before military tribunals
They had more ambitious plans charges against other suspects. which connects New Jersey and AP. rather than through civilian
and conspired with him to try to Already charged are an imam, a New York. Suspicious officers Zazi's father was accused this courts.
help him die a martyr in a cab driver and Zazi's uncle and allowed him to go free but kept a month of trying to get rid of "To take this tool out of our
bombing of the New York father, who's been accused of close watch on his movements. chemicals and other evidence. hands, to denigrate this tool,"
subway system, he admitted trying to dispose of chemicals. "The plan was to conduct Prosecutors, after initially Holder said, "flies in the face of
Monday. U.S. Attorney General Eric martyrdom operation on the demanding that he be jailed in facts and is more about politics
"I had discussions with al-Qaida Holder said in Washington that subway lines in Manhattan as Brooklyn without bail, agreed to than it is about facts."
l e a d e r s , i n c l u d i n g t a r g e t the planned bombings "could soon as the material was ready," a deal on Feb. 17 releasing him ___
locations, such as New York have been devastating." Zazi said. on $50,000 bond and allowing Associated Press writers Devlin
City subways," he said. "This attempted attack on our Sometime after the traffic stop, him to return to his home in Barrett and Pete Yost in
Zazi, a former Colorado airport homeland was real, it was in Zazi realized authorities were suburban Denver. Washington and Larry
shuttle driver, pleaded guilty motion and it would have been investigating him. By contrast, bond for a Queens Neumeister in New York
Monday in Brooklyn federal deadly," he said. "At that point, we threw away imam charged with lying to the contributed to this report.
court to conspiring to use Zazi admitted using notes taken the detonator explosives and FBI about phone contact with Five Filters featured article:
weapons of mass destruction, at an al-Qaida training camp in other materials," he said. Zazi when Zazi was in New Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
conspiring to commit murder in Waziristan, Pakistan, to build Authorities raided several York was set at $1.5 million. A PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
a foreign country and providing homemade explosives with Queens apartments, including a friend of Zazi's, a New York cab Term Extraction.
material support for a terrorist beauty supplies purchased in the friend's home where Zazi had driver, was jailed without bail on
Video: World Net Daily Columnist Supports Uganda Death Penalty for Gays
(Little Green Footballs) Molotov Mitchell comes right the death penalty” for gays. This gays” rant. obnoxious rock music
Submitted at 2/22/2010 5:46:34 PM out and defends Uganda’s bill to caveman even quotes Martin This has to be one of the soundtrack, how is this different
make homosexuality a capital Luther King as some kind of stupidest, most hateful videos from the Taliban?[Video]
World Net Daily columnist offense — because “God created twisted support for his “kill the I’ve seen yet. Apart from the
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SOME,
NYC Terror Plotter Plea Deal May Broaden Case continued from page 16
Monday Afternoon Music: Don Ross The Future of Money: It's Flexible,
(Little Green Footballs) composition “Tight Trite Night,” iTunes Store has it too.)[Video]
Frictionless and (Almost) Free
Submitted at 2/22/2010 1:08:54 PM on a terrific-sounding Beneteau“ by Daniel Roth (Wired Top card cartel is ending. A new
fan fret” guitar. This tune is on Stories) wave of financial upstarts is
The great Don Ross plays his the album Passion Session.(The Submitted at 2/22/2010 9:00:00 PM
liberating your cash -- and the
economy.
The reign of the bank and credit
20 Popular News/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition
Extreme Test:
Guilty plea in New York bomb plot Going Ballistic on
(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition) Bulletproof Vests
Submitted at 2/22/2010 2:46:03 PM
by Kelsey Hazlewood (Wired
Top Stories)
Message from fivefilters.org: If
you can, please donate to the full Submitted at 2/22/2010 9:00:00 PM
since it failed to prevent an saved. weekend, and hit the subway just Five Filters featured article:
The plot had been months in the after the anniversary of the 11 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Take one classic American hot
attack on an airliner bound for rod, add some 21st-century
Detroit on Christmas Day, says planning. September attacks. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
The US Department of Justice Mr Holder said Zazi was under Term Extraction. technology ... and vroom!
the BBC's Matthew Price in New
York. said Zazi flew to Pakistan in surveillance throughout his trip,
'We will not rest' 2008 with a view to fighting for and the investigation was
Mr Holder said the US the Taliban. ongoing.
24 Popular News/ Tech Blog/ E-reader News Edition
rules make it abundantly clear While Denny's restaurants invite name, the Denny's situation begging to be reassigned. Googling their name, or
that the service permits parody diners to visit twiter.com/dennys, would be simple. But according However, despite the fact that messaging some of their
accounts, so long as users do not the account is owned by a to Laura Fitton, the author of Twitter's policy is that accounts followers, it may be possible to
have "clear intent to deceive or Taiwanese man. Had he not "Twitter for Dummies," "This may be removed after six months figure out another way to find
confuse." posted to the account in the last one is a hard call, because it's the of inactivity, the company states them.
"Twitter users are allowed to few days, he might have lost it guy's name...If it was a real rather sternly that, "We are not For example, I used Facebook to
create parody, commentary or due to inactivity. Now, however, trademark thing, they wouldn't releasing inactive accounts on an find Hsieh, since that service
fan accounts," the parody policy the question of whether the have to wait the six months. individual basis at this time allows any user to send a
begins. "Twitter provides a restaurant chain can claim the Because it's the guy's real name, unless in cases of Terms of message to any other. But
platform for its users to share account is up in the air.(Credit: it's in a gray area." Service violations." Denny's apparently didn't try
and receive a wide range of ideas Daniel Terdiman/CNET) Contacted for my previous Instead, the company notes that such an approach in its attempts
and content, and we greatly In an interview, Bill Ruby, article about the Denny's it "is currently working on bulk- to claim twitter.com/dennys, at
value and respect our users' Denny's vice president of sales situation, Hsieh responded after releasing all inactive user least as far as Hsieh can recall.
expression...In order to avoid and field marketing, said that the publication that the restaurant names," a procedure that would Ultimately, unless it's a case of
impersonation, an account's company had been in touch with chain had never reached out to free up registered IDs that have impersonation or trademark
profile information should make Twitter and that, because Hsieh him about the account. He also been left unused in much the infringement, Twitter users who
it clear that the creator of the hadn't tweeted in more than six said that he had stopped tweeting same way that expired URLs can want to get their hands on
account is not actually the same months, "They've essentially told last July only because of a glitch eventually become available. someone else's ID may well have
person or entity as the subject of us it's our domain." in his RSS software that had Fitton said that she has heard to wait for the company to come
the parody/commentary." Indeed, Twitter's official policy resulted in his blog no longer that Twitter hoped to complete up with its automated process
Not cut and dried governing accounts considers automatically forwarding his this bulk-releasing project early and for the account they want to
For Twitter, which is still a them " inactive" if they haven't posts to his Twitter account. this year but that, "unfortunately, be inactive for six months or
small company, despite its tens "been logged into or updated in Indeed, in the days following the they haven't been able to do that more. Until then, short of
of millions of users, situations over six months" and states that publication of the Denny's yet." reaching an accommodation with
involving the clear "inactive accounts may be article, Hsieh has resumed So does that mean that there's no the account owner, there is
impersonation of celebrities or automatically removed from tweeting, meaning the ownership way to retrieve an inactive ID? probably little that can be done.
companies are surely the easiest Twitter." of @dennys is once again in a Hardly, said Fitton. But what about a situation
and quickest to resolve. And while Twitter did not make very gray area. Denny's may well The best thing to do, she where the owner of the inactive
But what about the countless a spokesperson available for an find itself having to stick to its explained, is to try to reach out account wants to hand it over to
situations where things aren't so interview for this story, a other two Twitter accounts, to the owner of the account and the rightful owner? Jeff Probst, I
cut and dried? spokesperson did e-mail CNET @DennysGrandSlam and politely ask if there's any way have something for you. All you
One example involves Denny's last week acknowledging that, @DennysAllnightr. they would be willing to turn have to do is get in touch.
restaurants. As I wrote last week "after [six] months of inactivity Due to high volume over the ID to you. It may, of Five Filters featured article:
in a story about Denny's social- we may be able to release The vast majority of Twitter course, be difficult to figure out Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
media efforts, its dinner menus, accounts to another party." users' account ID support who such a person is, since PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
as a result of a misprint, In the past, the company had requests, however, likely have there's no way to direct message Term Extraction.
mistakenly invite customers to considered nine months the nothing to do with impersonation a Twitter user unless they're
visit the company's Twitter inactivity threshold and had been or trademark infringement. following you and because
account, " twitter.com/dennys." known to be responsive to Rather, they are surely almost all someone who has abandoned an
But that ID actually belongs to a requests to take over such related to someone seeing that account may well never become
Taiwanese man named Dennys accounts. what would be a great ID for aware of someone sending them
Hsieh. If Dennys wasn't Hsieh's first them is sitting inactive, just a so-called @ message. But by
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Bing's iPhone app was very quite possibly the worst Mac e- my Yahoo Mail before the self- walk away from its products
useful, with voice-activated mail/calendar client ever imposed ban went into place. with their data intact.
search and precise driving invented and the only one But one look at Google's That is, if you're a regular Don't Bring Laptops
directions that came in very supported by our IT department-- product list shows just how person. Advertisers who wish to
handy in Lake Tahoe. The maps is definitely worth it. many services I never use, such be online have little choice but to to Class or Else
part of that application also has YouTube was hard to dismiss. as Blogger, Picasa, Google dance with Google and its [Practical Science]
nice filters for searching for There's simply no other online Product Search, Knol, and immense reach. And that's what
different kinds of restaurants and video service with the breadth countless others. I have may one day trip up the by Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
shops in a given area. I'd have to and depth of what is available on registered accounts with some of company, assuming its hold on Submitted at 2/23/2010 8:49:00 AM
say I preferred the Google Maps YouTube, and I was forced to those services just to see what online advertising continues to
aesthetic, but Bing Maps pass on undoubtedly hilarious they are all about, but don't strengthen. Some people may ask why a
definitely got the job done. (yet probably fleeting) links sent actively use them. But otherwise, a Google-free physics professor used liquid
Everything else to me by friends. Another Competition really is a click life is quite attainable. Still, if nitrogen to freeze and shatter a
Because of the controversy difficult separation was from away your objection to using Google's laptop against the floor, just to
surrounding the privacy options Google Reader: the Web-based There are really no excuses for services is that the company tell students that laptops were
on Google Buzz after its launch, alternatives I tried were much lamenting Google's reach across stores too much data on your prohibited in class. Personally, I
I had no choice but to break my more buggy and confusing, the Internet: if you don't want to online habits, don't be fooled into think that's cool, but I have
pledge for professional reasons although NetNewsWire's desktop use their services, you are rarely thinking that other Internet another question:
to stay on top of that experience. application worked very well. required to do so and you won't companies aren't doing the same What is Dr. Egon Spengler
But as my Buzz followers (and Google Docs was another miss all that much by going with thing. doing working as a physics
Facebook friends) are aware, I'm service that I missed, but only alternatives. Five Filters featured article: professor at the University of
not a big updater of social-media because I had already uploaded Google has actually made this Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Oklahoma?
services in general and wouldn't so much data into that service for one of its calling cards. It PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
have missed Buzz otherwise. wedding planning and real-estate reminds regulators and foes alike Term Extraction.
I completely and totally forgot documentation. Several that "competition is a click
that I was using Google Calendar alternatives exist (most notably away" when forced to defend its
synced with my iPhone and Microsoft Office Live amazing growth over the past
desktop iCal application until I Workspace) if I was planning to several years. And through
was writing this story, so go make this a long experiment, but projects like the Data Liberation
ahead and ding me for that. I was able to get around it by Front, Google has made it a
Avoiding Microsoft Entourage-- forwarding crucial documents to priority to give its users ways to
The Importance Of Letting Countries Make desktop and six different mobile
platforms including the iPhone,
but now it can boast its presence
Their Own Policy Decisions On Copyright on a unique piece of hardware:
your printer. have surpassing 2 million users
by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) CCIA, a few months back, that their own policy decisions on and be on a lot of platforms, but
Starting today, Lexmark’s
Submitted at 2/22/2010 7:19:00 PM put out the marvelous report that copyright law, rather than being SmartSolution Interact, Prestige, we wouldn’t have ever thought
used the same exact pressured into them by the US. and Platinum printers will come that they’d stick the app onto
The Computer & methodology that the big pro- It further notes that the USTR with the ability to automatically printers.
Communications Industry copyright lobbyists have used to Special 301 process shouldn't be send and store your scans in your This integration was probably
Association (CCIA), which claim the "size" of the economic focused on legislative and policy Evernote account through a new inevitable though, especially as
represents a variety of big tech impact on copyright, to point out issues, but merely enforcement Evernote SmartSolution app, a more and more devices gain app
companies, including Microsoft, that the economic impact of fair of the law. Unfortunately, it's modified version of its mobile stores, and it’s a big partnership
Google, eBay, Oracle and others, use trumps that by a wide gotten far away from that. app. It doesn’t even require a for the note-taking startup. It
has come on strong lately as a margin. There were a ton of great filings computer to use. faces some tough competition
defender against the ridiculous So it's great -- if not surprising -- to the USTR that I've seen Lexmark’s SmartSolution line from Microsoft’s OneNote
and unnecessary expansion of to see that the CCIA's filing to already, and hopefully the USTR of printer already comes with software, so getting on these
overly aggressive copyright law. the USTR for the Special 301 really does pay attention to those apps — about 20 of them to be platforms is definitely vital to
This is good news -- seeing as report(pdf) actually matches beyond the usual crew of exact — that range from fueling its growth.
some of the companies it much of my own filing, though entertainment industry and MSNBC Headlines to Google Does having apps on a printer
represents haven't always from a more legalistic p h a r m a c e u t i c a l i n d u s t r y Calendar. It’s an interesting line make you want to buy these
seemed so enlightened on the perspective (and focuses on lobbyists, to recognize that this of touch screen printers that printers? Would having an
subject. I was lucky to meet Canada). The key points are the issue is a lot more complex than provides a lot of functionality. Evernote app on your printer
with some CCIA folks about a same, however: the it has, at times, been treated in Now with the addition of the make you want to use it more?
month ago, and they definitely Constitutional basis for the past. Still, it's great to see a E v e r n o t e a p p , i t b e c o m e s Let us know what you think in
seemed to recognize that a more copyright has never been that g r o u p l i k e C C I A a d d i t s ridiculously easy to send your the comments.
draconian copyright policy "more is better," but that we i m p o r t a n t v o i c e t o t h e scan into the cloud and access it Tags: evernote, Lexmark
actually does much more harm should be seeking the most discussion, too. from anyway. Evernote may
than good to the companies effective ways to "promote the Permalink| Comments| Email
whose interests they represent. progress." Second, it notes that This Story
You may recall that it was the countries should be free to make
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FCC: Cost is the Biggest Barrier to Did The UK Gov't Back Down
On Three Strikes... Or Did It
Broadband Adoption in the US Just Change What It Called It?
by Stan Schroeder and cost are their biggest barriers
(Mashable!) for adopting broadband internet by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) wordsmiths decided that
Submitted at 2/23/2010 1:45:25 AM
access. Finally, the Near Submitted at 2/22/2010 11:23:00 PM "disconnection" is too harsh a
Converts make up 10 percent of word to describe the policy (even
FCC has a report on broadband the population, they’re relatively There were a smattering of if it's accurate), and are now
adoption in the US, based on a youthful, they have computers, reports that the UK gov't was going with "temporary account
survey of 5,005 Americans in but monthly access cost is the backing down on plans to suspension" (even though it does
October and November 2009. barrier that prevents them from implement three strikes rules as mean you're disconnected from
The report found that 78 percent adopting broadband internet. part of Peter Mandelson's Digital your account). So when a
of adults are Internet users, and have a computer and/or don’t On March 17, the FCC is to Economy Bill. That would be a petition came through asking the
6 5 p e r c e n t o f a d u l t s a r e know how to use one, and cost of deliver a national plan that pretty big surprise, if true, as government not to disconnect
broadband adopters. It then c o m p u t e r a n d b r o a d b a n d should bring high speed internet kicking people off the internet those accused of file sharing, the
divides users who haven’t got connection is also a big barrier. t o u s e r s t h a t d o n ’ t h a v e b a s e d o n a c c u s a t i o n s ( n o t government had no problem
broadband into four groups. The Then there are the Digitally broadband access. According to convictions) had been the key saying "sure," even though it still
Digitally Distant make up 10 Uncomfortable, who make up 7 these findings, lowering the cost thing Mandelson wanted after his supports temporary account
p e r c e n t o f t h e g e n e r a l percent of the population; they of access will be their first little dinner with David Geffen suspension. And copyright
population; this is the group that mostly have computers and the priority. last summer (after barely caring supporters accuse those in favor
simply doesn’t want to be online. resources for broadband access, Read the entire report here. about this particular issue at all). of reform as playing word
The Digital Hopefuls make up 8 but they lack the skills. Lack of Image credit: iStockphoto, enot- But, it appears that reality is that games?
percent of the population; they’d available infrastructure, low poloskun Reviews: iStockphoto this is just UK politicians Permalink| Comments| Email
like to be online but lack perception of the Internet’s Tags: broadband, fcc, internet playing games with words. This Story
resources to do so; many don’t relevance, low digital literacy Apparently, the political
Has American Thinker Saved the World from the AGW Hoax?
(Little Green Footballs) “Our results provide direct the opposite conclusion of the evidence for the Dunning-Kruger competence. This leads to the
Submitted at 2/22/2010 12:20:51 PM experimental evidence for a papers’ authors. I first effect. unfortunate result that unskilled
significant increase in the Earth’s encountered Harries 2001 when Another good read at Skeptical people rate themselves higher
Recently I received several g r e e n h o u s e e f f e c t t h a t i s documenting the empirical Science: The Dunning-Kruger than more competent people. The
emails with links to an article at consistent with concerns over evidence for an enhanced effect and the climate debate. phenonemon is known as the
American Thinker by Gary radiative forcing of climate.” greenhouse effect. After reading One of the best titles for a Dunning-Kruger effect, named
Thompson, claiming to have the Skeptical Science has a good the paper, I had many questions. scientific paper has to be the Ig after the paper’s authors, and is
“smoking gun” that disproves post on this, with graphs and Rather than let the gaps in my Nobel prize winning “ Unskilled often seen in the climate debate.
global warming once and for all. everything: Have American understanding lead me to think I and unaware of it: How There are many with a cursory
That’s it. It’s over, Johnny. Time T h i n k e r d i s p r o v e n g l o b a l knew more than the authors, I difficulties in recognizing one’s understanding who believe
to fold up those weather stations w a r m i n g ? emailed my questions to the lead own incompetence lead to they’re discovered fundamental
and go home. So what do we learn from the author John Harries, an inflated self-assessments”. The flaws in climate science that
Except that one of the scientific A m e r i c a n T h i n k e r a r t i c l e . approachable scientist who was paper compares people’s skill have somehow been overlooked
papers that Thompson thinks is a Thompson cites peer-reviewed forthcoming with prompt and levels to their own assessment of or ignored by climate scientists.
paradigm-shattering disproof of papers but his analysis consists detailed replies. The American their abilities. In hindsight, the Some take this a step further and
AGW is, in reality, exactly the of eyeballing graphs while Thinker article does not disprove result seems self-evident. believe they’re being deceived.
opposite. The paper’s authors spurning the peer-reviewed data the greenhouse effect. It does Unskilled people lack the skill to
concluded: analysis. This approach leads to however provide further rate their own level of
38 Politics/ E-reader News Edition
Bipartisanship!
by Jonathan Cohn (The New awards, as several states have to operate under a cloud of a scheme cut down on frivolous Senate health reform bills
Republic - All Feed) already done. California, for suspicion, without necessarily lawsuits. It might also improve encourage more experimentation.
Submitted at 2/22/2010 9:00:00 PM
example, limits pain and punishing those physicians who the quality of care--which would, But they don't set aside enough
suffering awards in malpractice are truly negligent. It encourages in theory, reduce the incidence of money. If Republicans wanted to
Message from fivefilters.org: If to just $250,000 per case. the use of tests and treatments actual malpractice. do something to change
you can, please donate to the full More often than not, Democrats that are frivolous, if not The good news is that Obama malpractice, they could call for
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continue developing it. reform. They've pointed to the vast majority of people who front. Back in 2005, while he -and, perhaps, more aggressive
Ever since President Barack studies questioning just how big need compensation for medical was still just a senator, he co- guidance about how to handle
Obama announced he'd be o f a n i m p a c t m a l p r a c t i c e errors with no easy way to get it. sponsored (with Hillary Clinton) the results.
having a bipartisan meeting to litigation has on overall health The key is finding ways to fix a bill that would have Of course, that would mean
talk about health care reform, costs. They have also cited the malpractice system so that it implemented a "sorry works" achieving malpractice reform, a
R e p u b l i c a n s h a v e b e e n evidence--fairly incontrovertible- helps both physicians and the model nationally. It didn't cause they've long championed,
denouncing it as a charade. He's -that most victims of medical patients, rather than one at the become law, but Obama kept in a different manner than the
not really interested in their e r r o r s n e v e r g e t a n y expense of the other. And there talking up malpractice reform. Republicans have traditionally
ideas, they say. And he doesn't compensation at all. As such, are several promising Last year, he instructed the embraced. But that's the
really want their support. Democrats have argued, capping possibilities for achieving that. Department of Health and definition of compromise:
But is the problem that Obama damages won't do a lot to reduce One is to have doctors report Human Services to sponsor a Finding common ground with an
won't listen to the Republicans-- health care costs. What's worse, medical errors to hospital series of demonstration projects adversary in order to achieve a
or that the Republicans won't it might discourage people with administrators, who would then around the country. goal you both share. Obama has
listen to Obama? One way to legitimate claims of malpractice notify patients and begin Michelle Mello, a Harvard shown he's willing to do that.
answer that question is to watch from bringing legal action. negotiations. A version of this professor and leading expert in Will the Republicans do the
what happens at Thursday's The parties' allegiance to special "sorry works" model is in place the field, says experimenting same?
health “summit” meeting if interests has reinforced the at the University of Michigan with the different models is Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor
discussion turns to medical political stalemate. Business Health System, where it has precisely the right approach to for The New Republic. This item
malpractice reform. groups, which traditionally reduced lawsuits, cut litigation take--because the data on the is a collaboration between TNR
The issue is familiar to anybody support Republicans, have costs and sped the resolution of different reforms is still very and Kaiser Health News. KHN is
who follows health care policy promoted malpractice reform cases. sketchy. But, she adds, the an editorially independent news
or, for that matter, anybody who because it's part of a broader Another idea is to create a no- experiments HHS has launched service and is a program of the
has ever spoken to a doctor at campaign to rein in liability fault system, similar to the way probably won't go far enough, Kaiser Family Foundation, a
length. Republicans have long l a w s u i t s . ( S u c h l a w s u i t s workers' compensation works, or because they are too limited. To nonpartisan health care policy
said that frivolous malpractice frequently target corporations to channel most malpractice really see which approach works, research organization, which is
lawsuits make medical care more and result in large jury awards.) cases through special "health it's essential to get more data-- not affiliated with Kaiser
expensive, by forcing doctors to Trial lawyers, who traditionally courts" that would come before and, whenever possible, to get Permanente.
s p e n d m o n e y o n l a w y e r s , support Democrats, have fought jury trials. (The Scandinavian data that covers an entire area (or For more TNR, become a fan on
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Seven Car Problems That Can Leave You Stranded and How
to Prevent Them
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YouSendIt found its place in the that YouSendIt specializes in. also able to track whether the today. YouSendIt Adopts the
evolution of email by providing Large Files Needed a Home recipient downloaded the file. Joseph Stack, the man who
Enterprise
existing email users a solution to The company currently has has divebombed a tax office in Texas
For both user experience, Microsoft Exchange has become
a common problem - sending technical infrastructure, and cost about 5 million "file batches" in his small plane last week is
the dominant email system in the
large files. Along the way, the reasons many email systems cap sent per month with over 10 being held up, albeit mainly
enterprise. YouSendIt spent a lot
company has leveraged its the size of attachments they million downloads. On average, euphemistically and
of time working closely with
position in cloud based solution allow to pass through the each file is being read by two anonymously, as an anti-big-
Exchange and its client
to offer additional benefits to its g a t e w a y . L a r g e f i l e s a r e persons on the other side and the government hero by the tea party
counterpart Outlook to bring its
users. sender is able to see which ones. movement.
routinely blocked, causing email cloud-based attachments solution
Sponsor This audibility provides The Associated Press report that
users the challenge of figuring to the platform. This solution
What do we Know about Email out another way to get them YouSendIt users a way to close a Facebook page lauding his
offers an approach to a gradual
A few things about using email across the network. the loop and gain a deeper actions has over 2000 members,
transition to cloud computing -
t h a t d e f i n e i t a s a One way to think about it, is that insight to the status of their that far right Texas gubernatorial
one message at a time.
c o m m u n i c a t i o n s t o o l . large file attachments "real" communications. candidate Debra Medina said
Change is in-the-air around
• Each message can be targeted home is not the inbox, but more Imagine the sales person, who Stack embodied "the
collaboration and email. We
to a person, a list of people, or an rightfully the filesystem (aka My s e n d s a b r o c h u r e t o t h e hopelessness many in our society
wonder if the next generation of
entire group of people. prospects, getting a report back feel," and that his own daughter
Documents). And, increasingly email going to evolve into the
• Individuals can respond to the these files are being stored in the for who opened it and who sees him as a hero — though one
killer app for bringing social
message, ignore it, or mark it as cloud rather than the filesystem. didn't. It automatically separates whose actions were
networking it into the enterprise.
Spam. out the interested from the others "inappropriate."
A diagram describing how it What do you think, will email
• It's security and privacy model works shows how it creates a and gives an opportunity to And obviously right-wing
ever fade away?
that starts as opt-out, rather than new channel for connecting the target the next message. forums on the internet are rife
Discuss
op-in. Meaning that if you get u s e r t o t h e i r f i l e , w h i l e Email is a social application that with people saying they have to
"suppress the urge to take flying
lessons," in the wake of Stack's
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Maybe used game sales are actually good for the industry?
by Nicholas Deleon “Project Ten Dollar” was exclusive DLC is a menace. Why
(CrunchGear) concocted to battle against the do I have to buy the game from
Submitted at 2/23/2010 5:15:57 AM
scourge of second-hand video four different stores to get, say,
game sales, forcing gamers to all of the available weapons and
What is it with publishers pay upward of $10 for DLC that armor in the game? To me, rather
fascination with second-hand usually comes for free alongside than being a “value add” (“bonus
sales? Yes, for every used video the purchase of a new video armor when you buy from us!”),
game you buy on eBay, the game. Turns out, not only does it it’s a removal of functionality.
publisher sees zero dollars and hurt consumers and retailers, but “Oh, so if I pre-order the game
zero cents, but are they operating it hurts publishers in the long from Store A, I won’t get the
at such razor-thin margins that run! weapons and armor from Stores
teens auctioning off their old Anyhow, the deal is that B, C, and D? Well that stinks.
PSP games is worth their retailers that specialize in second Way to sell me an incomplete
attention? You don’t see Ford or -hand sales have explained that, Madden NFL 10. Of course, at some point) and not the game.”
GM or Toyota or Honda or the reason why so many people publishers like EA are far too enabled Madden NFL 10 sale. Not that I buy used video games
anything complaining about used sell their old games is to fund the myopic to see this—all they see It’s but a part of the same ethic much—I think I bought a used
cars sales, do you? (Actually, do purchase of new video games. is the “lost” Madden NFL 09 that I complained about, quite Castlevania for the GameBoy
you? I know next to nothing Little Timmy sells Madden NFL sale (assuming the game is sold shrilly, might I add, the other: Advance like five years ago.
about cars.) Electronic Arts’ 09 for $10 so he can afford
Once Upon a Time, Long Before the iPad, Steve Jobs Rode a
BMW Motorcycle
by Charles Moore interviewed by Johnston over performance through the current
(TheAppleBlog) herb tea at a vegetarian economic recession, the
Submitted at 2/22/2010 12:22:43 PM
restaurant, was modestly at the company seemed to be
time to become “the weathering a late ‘82 downturn
Two years before the Macintosh V o l k s w a g e n ” o f t h e the microchip sector rather well,
was unveiled, Apple’s then-and- microcomputer sector rather than with revenues soaring 81 percent
future CEO was photographed its BMW — which became a year-over-year and Apple
by Charles O’Rear for a National popular automotive analogy with occupying 22 buildings in
Geographic Magazine feature on Apple-watching commentators Silicon Valley as well as having
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, l a t e r o n — a l t h o u g h h e plants in Texas, Singapore, and
riding a 1966 BMW R60/2 emphasizes that “We’d rather Ireland.
motorcycle. call the Apple a personal than a Plus ca change, plus c’est la
27 years old, with longish hair home computer.” meme chose.
(no helmet), wearing tan boots The article notes that the Apple Read here for a scan and
and a light-colored shirt with c o m p u t e r “ h a s i n s p i r e d a transcript, with photos, of the
sleeves rolled back (no black dedicated cult of hard-core entire National Geographic
turtleneck), Jobs looks like he’s enthusiasts who trade new uses article.
having the time of his life riding for the computer in the columns A tip of the hat to Modern
the two-wheel Bimmer in San of Apple magazines” and that Mechanix for posting the article
Francisco freelancer Moira Jobs had “become a potent role Johnston also reports that age,” who still preferred scan and to Peter Orosz of
Johnston’s feature “High Tech, model for a new breed of bright besides the BMW two-wheeler, according to an unnamed friend jalopnik.com for drawing my
High Risk, and High Life in kids who are writing and selling Jobs, already holding $100 quoted, “to drive his motorcycle attention to this fascinating
Silicon Valley,” published in the software programs and, with million worth of Apple stock, to my place, sit around and drink snippet of history.
magazine’s October 1982 issue. their arcane computer skills, also owned “the requisite wine, and talk about what we’re
However, notwithstanding his gaining the prestige formerly Mercedes,” but that “success going to do when we grow up.”
(excellent) taste in bikes, Steve’s tasted only by the high-school seems not to have spoiled the Of more than passing interest is
s t a t e d a m b i t i o n , w h e n football team.” first folk hero of the computer that not unlike Apple’s
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growth like this, we would undermining confidence as If the consumer and housing collateral requirements can be financial conditions improve,
experience a vibrant V-shaped people worry whether they will sectors aren’t up to the task of onerous. What’s more, the crisis and banks increase the supply of
upswing like those that occurred have a paycheck in the months delivering a V-shaped recovery, made businesses keenly aware credit. I expect growth of about
following past severe recessions. ahead. Even those with secure can business investment that they can’t count on being 3½ percent for the year as a
Unfortunately, I’m not at all jobs may worry about their spending do it? It’s true that, in able to get credit. Some of my whole, picking up to about 4½
convinced that a V-shaped finances since debt burdens were past recoveries, business contacts say they plan to keep percent next year, with private
recovery is in the cards. That near historic highs at the onset of investment typically grew more cash on hand, rather than demand coming on line to pick
fourth-quarter leap in GDP the financial crisis and, since rapidly once the economy turned investing it, as protection against up the slack as government
overstates the underlying then, equity and house prices the corner. And, in the current a renewed credit crunch. stimulus programs fade away.
momentum of the economy. have declined sharply. At this recession, businesses sharply Meanwhile, commercial real In addition to some of the weak
Much of it was due to a point, households are actually curtailed capital expenditures, so estate remains a bleak spot and spots I already mentioned, a
slowdown in the pace at which paying down debt, a they will eventually need to investment in nonresidential number of other factors are
businesses were drawing down development that partly reflects rebuild capacity and replace old structures is likely to stay holding back recovery. First,
inventory stocks compared with the reluctance of banks to lend to equipment. In fact, we have depressed for some time. The even though the banking and
earlier in the year. Less than half households with battered balance already seen a rebound in recession drove up vacancy rates financial systems are gaining
of the fourth-quarter growth sheets. business spending on equipment for office, retail, warehouse, and strength, they still bear wounds
reflected higher sales to The housing sector appears to and software, and recent other income-producing from the financial crisis, and
customers. Those sales did grow, have stabilized, but here too I indicators for this type of properties, severely reducing these will take a long time to
but at a lackluster 2.2 percent. It don’t see any signs of a sharp spending point to solid growth. demand for new buildings. In fully heal. Second, losses on
appears that businesses are turnaround. New home sales and Arguing against too much addition, credit is tight. Lenders mortgages, commercial real
getting their inventories closer in construction finally stopped optimism, however, is that and investors are demanding estate credits, and other loans
line with sales, which is a good falling last year and have been businesses remain very nervous extra compensation for risk, continue to mount, and the full
thing. But such inventory reasonably stable, albeit at very and exceedingly cost conscious. driving up commercial real estate weight of foreclosures and bank
adjustments can be a potent low levels, for several months. One of my contacts referred to a financing rates compared with failures on the economy has yet
source of growth only for a few Existing home sales surged late “scarring effect” in the wake of pre-recession levels. And the to be felt. Finally, the Fed, as
quarters. I’d feel much more last year in response to the the recession that has left market for commercial mortgage well as central banks in other
confident about the prospect for homebuyer tax credit. But, the businesses focused on survival -backed securities remains countries, has faced limits in the
a sustained robust recovery if I credit expires this spring, so this and leery of investing. Many distressed, despite support from amount of monetary stimulus we
saw evidence of more vigorous source of support won’t be businesspeople say they are the Fed’s Term Asset-Backed have been able to generate.
growth in actual sales. around much longer. The concentrating instead on process Securities Loan Facility, or That’s because we can’t push
On that front, the most recent housing sector has also been improvements, keeping supply TALF. So, I just don’t see this interest rates below the near-zero
data show consumers releasing benefiting from the Fed’s policy chains lean, waiting for purchase sector contributing to growth for level where they’ve been for
somewhat their tight grips on of buying mortgage-backed orders before they produce, and quite some time. 2 more than a year. To be sure,
their wallets. But that doesn’t securities. These purchases meeting increases in demand Put it all together and you have we’ve developed many
mean that people have thrown appear to have helped keep home with higher productivity from a recipe for a moderate rate of innovative programs to make
caution to the wind and returned finance rates low. But, the Fed is their existing workforces. True, economic growth, well below the credit cheaper and more readily
to their spendthrift ways. Indeed, now in the process of tapering they are beginning to plan with spritely pace set in the fourth available. But, all in all,
my business contacts tell me the off these purchases and plans to greater confidence. But the quarter. The current quarter monetary policy can’t give the
consumer mindset is still in a stop them at the end of March. watchword remains caution. appears on course to post growth same kick to the economy that it
fragile state. Clearly, the big As support from Federal Reserve Even for those businesses ready of around 3 percent. I see the delivered in past recoveries.
weight hanging over everyone’s and other government programs to expand—especially smaller economy gradually picking up Earlier I noted that, even though
heads is jobs. The current high phases out, there is a risk that the ones—financing remains an steam over the remainder of this the recession appears to be over,
level of unemployment is housing market could weaken impediment. Credit is becoming year as households and
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it does not mean that we are percent to around negative 3 its current level to about 9¼ important implications for what expect to see a large increase in
where we want to be. Even with percent by the end of 2011. In percent by the end of this year unemployment does in the the labor force participation rate,
my moderate growth forecast, fact, I don’t expect the output and still be about 8 percent by future. that is, the percentage of people
the economy will be operating gap to completely vanish until the end of 2011, a far cry from Economists have come up with who are working or saying they
well below its potential for sometime in 2013. full employment. a number of possible are looking for work. In fact,
several years. Economists think This brings us to a subject that is I should warn that there is a explanations for why the currently, the labor force
in terms of what we call the of paramount concern to all of great deal of uncertainty unemployment rate rose so much participation rate does not appear
“output gap,” which measures us—the job situation. This surrounding this forecast. In the last year. The first explanation to be unusually high.
the difference between the actual recession has been very severe, past, a given level of economic for the failure of Okun’s law is A second possible explanation is
level of GDP and the level where indeed. The U.S. economy has growth produced a more-or-less that special factors not directly that last year’s enormous decline
GDP would be if the economy shed 8.4 million jobs since predictable change in the related to output growth may be in employment was somehow an
were operating at full December 2007. That’s more unemployment rate. Historically, pushing up the unemployment aberration. GDP was basically
employment. The output gap was than a 6 percent drop in payrolls, a pattern emerged in which rate. One possibility is that the unchanged over the four quarters
around negative 6 percent in the the largest percentage point unemployment declined by half severe recession is of 2009. But payroll employment
fourth quarter of 2009, based on decline since the demobilization as much as the difference in the fundamentally altering the labor fell by 4 percent over the same
Congressional Budget Office following World War II. The growth rates of actual and market, shifting jobs away from period. In other words, the
estimates. That’s a very big unemployment rate, which was 5 potential GDP. This is such sectors as manufacturing, economy produced roughly the
number and it means the U.S. percent at the start of the commonly referred to as real estate, and finance to other same quantity of goods and
economy was producing 6 recession, rose to around 10 “Okun’s law” after the sectors. This reallocation takes services with 4 percent fewer
percent less than it could have percent in late 2009. The rates of economist Arthur Okun, who time. Until it is complete, we workers, which translates into a
had we been at full employment. job openings and hiring are also first described this relationship will see higher levels of 4 percent increase in output per
That’s equivalent to more than stuck at very low levels. These back in the 1960s. unemployment. A second worker. That’s a huge rate of
$900 billion of lost output per statistics represent a tragedy for Let me sketch out how this possibility is that extended productivity growth, well above
year, or roughly $3,000 per our country, our communities, should work. In my forecast, unemployment benefits are estimates of the long-term trend
person. and each of the families and GDP growth exceeds the growth artificially boosting reported in productivity gains that stem
I’m afraid that the economy will individuals who have had to rate of potential GDP by 1 unemployment rates because from such factors as improved
continue to operate well below cope with a loss of livelihood. percentage point this year and 2 workers who collect technology. So, if we ask where
its potential throughout this year There is a glimmer of good percentage points next year. unemployment checks may be Okun’s law went astray, we can
and next. Let me do a little math news on the employment front. According to Okun’s law, the saying they are looking for work see the fingerprints of this
for you. The San Francisco Fed The pace of job losses has unemployment rate should fall even if they have given up. In the unusual pattern of employment
estimates that the potential level slowed dramatically and some by about one-half percentage past, such people might not have and productivity last year. But
of output is increasing roughly indicators, such as gains in point by the end of this year and said they were searching for jobs that’s not the end of the mystery.
2½ percent a year due to growth temporary jobs, suggest that we a full percentage point during and would no longer have been What would cause employment
in the labor force and increases may be close to a turnaround in 2011. These figures are in line considered part of the labor force to dive and productivity to soar
in productivity. Hence, over the the labor market. I was with my unemployment forecast. and counted in the official during such a severe recession?
next two years, potential output encouraged to see the However, Okun’s law let us unemployment statistics. And is it a temporary or
will increase by about 5 percent. unemployment rate drop from 10 down big-time in 2009. Given Still, there is little evidence that permanent phenomenon?
My forecast is that real GDP will percent to 9.7 percent in January. that GDP was stagnant last year, structural shifts in the labor Those who believe it’s
increase about 8 percent during Nonetheless, given my forecast the unemployment rate should market or extended temporary point to the unusual
that period, or 3 percentage of moderate growth and a have gone up by about 1¼ unemployment benefits have had nature of this terrible financial
points more than potential shrinking, but still sizable, output percentage points, according to large effects on the crisis and recession. Its severity
output. This implies that the gap, I expect unemployment to Okun’s law. In fact, it shot up 3 unemployment rate. Take the made employers believe that it
output gap will shrink from its remain painfully high for years. percentage points. Understanding unemployment benefits
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would be a long time, if ever, the recession has forced average in December, the most San Diego in December, even as the financial crisis and recession.
before they would need as many businesses to reexamine just recent data we have. they continued to rise As far as inflation is concerned,
workers as they previously had. about everything they do with an San Diego is among the nation’s nationwide. there’s no evidence that big
The credit crunch may also have eye toward restraining costs and leading biotechnology centers Overall, the San Diego economy government deficits cause high
caused some to fear that they boosting efficiency. Strapped by and this industry has been a will likely recover along with the inflation in advanced economies
wouldn’t be able to borrow in tight credit and plummeting bright spot. Biotech accounts for national economy. At the same with independent central banks,
order to meet their payrolls. sales, businesses have about two-and-a-half times as time, I would not be too such as the Fed. Japan is a case
These factors prompted overhauled the way they manage great a share of employment and surprised to see the recovery take in point. Japan has run enormous
employers to break from the supply chains, inventory, income here as it does hold here with a bit more vigor fiscal deficits for many years and
normal cyclical pattern in which production practices, and nationwide. Biotech wasn’t than in the nation as a whole for its government debt has risen to
workers are laid off relatively staffing. Stores don’t order entirely immune—if I may use the reasons I mentioned a very high levels. Yet is has
slowly and some are kept in merchandise unless they think that word—to the recession. But moment ago. suffered from persistent
reserve in case demand picks up. they can sell it right away. demand for medical services Let me move on to the outlook deflation, not inflation.
In this scenario, workforces have Manufacturers and builders don’t continued to expand and that for inflation nationwide. You can I believe that the more
been cut to the bone and perhaps produce unless they have buyers supported the industry. It appears get into quite a debate on this worrisome challenge for price
beyond. Businesses were able to lined up. My business contacts that local biotech employment topic. Some people worry that stability over the next few years
continue to produce the same describe this as a paradigm shift has largely held up during the sustained federal budget deficits stems primarily from the sizable
level of output despite big cuts in and they believe it’s permanent. past two years. Makers of and the huge increase in the amount of slack in the economy.
their workforces by working This process of implementing pharmaceuticals, medical Federal Reserve’s lending and Whether measured by the output
their employees harder. But that new efficiency gains may have equipment manufacturers, and stimulus programs could gap, the unemployment rate, the
can only go so far. If demand only begun and we may be in providers of research and eventually lead to high inflation. manufacturing capacity
continues to increase and store for further efficiency development services even Others take the opposite view, utilization rate, or whichever
businesses become more improvements and high registered significant arguing that economic slack and measure you like, the economy is
confident, they will eventually productivity growth for some employment gains. Moreover, downward pressure on wages running well below its potential.
begin hiring again. If so, time. If so, the rate of job growth should continue. After and prices are pushing inflation As a result, inflation is already
productivity growth will slow creation will be frustratingly bottoming out in early 2009, down. I would put myself very low and trending
and the unemployment rate will slow. venture capital spending has squarely in the second camp. downward. Over the past 12
fall faster than usual, reversing I’d like to bring this discussion risen substantially, with an I’m no fan of persistently large months, the personal
its unusual rise last year. home now by talking a little important share going to biotech. budget deficits. I’ve warned consumption price index,
There is an alternative about San Diego. Obviously, the The local housing market against them throughout my excluding volatile food and
explanation regarding the events area economy was hit hard appears to be improving as well. career. But the real danger I see energy prices, rose a modest 1.5
of last year though that bodes during the recession, but it does Fortunately, San Diego never from them is not inflation. percent. This increase in core
poorly for rapid employment seem to have weathered the saw as big a subprime mortgage Rather, they may be harmful inflation was below the 2 percent
gains going forward. According storm better than many areas of boom as Nevada, Arizona, and once the economy recovers rate that I and most of my fellow
to this view, last year’s large California. And, significantly, some other places in California. because they are apt to boost Fed policymakers on the Federal
increase in productivity is here to the San Diego area has shown Nevertheless, home foreclosures interest rates and absorb private Open Market Committee
stay. In that case, we won’t see a signs of a job market turnaround have surged in the San Diego savings that would otherwise (FOMC) consider an appropriate
quick drop in unemployment and in recent months. Employment area, rising from under 1 percent finance productive investments. long-term price stability
may be in for a jobless recovery grew notably in October and the in the fall of 2007 to slightly This is potentially a serious objective. And, with slack likely
akin to those in the early 1990s gains were largely maintained in over 3 percent of existing problem in the long term that to persist for years and wages
and early 2000s. This is closer to November and December. To be mortgages in December of last could reduce investment and barely rising, it seems quite
my view and broadly consistent sure, San Diego still has far to year. The trend, though, may be lower living standards, although, possible that core inflation will
with my forecast. go. The unemployment rate was heading in the right direction. in the short run, federal deficits
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move even lower this year and done immeasurable damage to lending programs, our balance around $50 billion. If we were to to tighten monetary policy. And,
next. our society. sheet remains, for want of a follow our standard approach of to make sure this works
So where does all this leave As financial and economic better word, enormous, owing to selling securities to raise interest smoothly, we have developed
Federal Reserve policy? conditions improve, the need for our holdings of mortgage-backed rates, we would have to sell off some technical tools that can
Traditionally, the main tool of such extraordinary support securities and agency debt. Now many hundreds of billions of help keep the federal funds rate
Fed monetary policy is the diminishes. Accordingly, the Fed I just said this is not the time to dollars of securities to reduce the near our preferred target. 5
federal funds rate, which is what has begun to phase out its be tightening monetary policy. supply of reserves enough to Eventually, after economic
banks charge each other for emergency lending programs. But eventually the economy will have any chance of pushing rates conditions have improved and a
overnight loans. The Fed Special lending programs for gain enough momentum and higher. policy tightening has begun, we
controls that rate by varying the primary dealers in the Treasury won’t need today’s The problem with doing that is may then start a gradual process
amount of reserves it supplies to securities market, for money extraordinarily low interest rates. that such massive sales of of selling securities in order to
the banking system and we have market mutual funds, and for When that time comes, we will mortgage-related and Treasury help return the Fed’s balance
pushed that rate to zero for all corporate short-term debt have begin to tighten policy and securities could be disruptive to sheet to its pre-crisis levels.
practical purposes. This is as low already been ended. So too have remove monetary stimulus. And markets and cause mortgage The bottom line is that we are
as it can go. Such we shut down special when we start doing so, we will interest rates and other long-term already unwinding the
accommodative policy is arrangements to make dollars face some technical issues due to rates to shoot up when we are emergency programs we set up
appropriate, in my view, because available to foreign central the size of the balance sheet, as still in the early stages of the during the financial crisis. When
the economy is operating well banks. The Term Auction Chairman Bernanke noted in recovery and the financial the day comes to start raising
below its potential and inflation Facility (TAF) and the TALF, recent Congressional testimony. system, although improving, is rates again, we have tools at the
is undesirably low. I believe this which respectively supported 4 Let me briefly outline our still not at full health. ready. But, for the time being,
is not the time to be removing financial institutions and credit strategy. There is an alternative. To push the economy still needs the
monetary stimulus. Consistent markets, will be largely closed In normal times, the Fed raises up short-term interest rates support of extraordinarily low
with that view, the FOMC has next month. 3 Finally, the interest rates by reducing the size without selling off our securities rates. Thank you very much.
repeatedly stated that it expects Federal Reserve has readjusted of its balance sheet, say by holdings, we can instead raise # # # End Notes
low interest rates to continue for the terms of its loans to banks selling Treasury securities to the the interest rate that we pay on 1. I would like to thank Rob
an extended period. and thrifts—so-called discount public. This draws in cash from reserves held at the Fed. Because Valletta, John Williams, and
Of course, in response to window lending. During the the economy, or, as we say, banks would have the Sam Zuckerman for assistance in
financial and economic financial crisis, we encouraged reduces the supply of bank opportunity to collect a higher preparing these remarks.
emergency, the Fed has done a depository institutions to borrow reserves, which in turn causes reward for keeping funds on 2. See Yellen 2009 for an in-
lot more than simply lower the from us when they needed cash the price of those reserves, that deposit at the Fed, they would depth discussion of commercial
federal funds rate. It has to meet essential obligations. is, the federal funds rate, to go demand commensurately higher real estate.
provided secured loans to banks Now that financial markets are up. Since the fed funds rate is the returns on the overnight loans 3. The TALF for loans backed
and other financial institutions to functioning more normally, benchmark for banks’ cost of that they make in the federal by new-issue commercial
make sure key credit markets banks can meet their usual money, other short-term market funds market. So an increase in mortgage-backed securities will
were functioning. It is also in the funding needs by tapping private interest rates tend to follow suit. the interest rate paid on reserves remain open until June 30.
last stages of purchasing $1.25 markets. Higher interest rates in turn help would raise the fed funds rate 4. See Bernanke 2010.
trillion dollars of mortgage- As we carried out our slow the economy and reduce and tighten financial conditions 5. See Bernanke 2010 for a
backed securities guaranteed by emergency lending programs and inflationary pressures. more generally. The ability to discussion of reverse repurchase
agencies such as Fannie Mae and eased monetary policy in But these aren’t normal times. pay interest on the excess operations and the term deposit
Freddie Mac, and $175 billion of response to the recession, our Our securities purchases have reserves that banks deposit with facility.
the direct debt of these agencies. balance sheet swelled from caused the quantity of reserves in the Fed is an important new tool References
These programs were vital in roughly $800 billion to its the banking system to swell to that Congress gave us just over a Bernanke, Ben S. 2010.“Federal
preventing a complete financial current level of over $2.2 trillion. something like $1 trillion—far year ago. It will play a lead role
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