tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post7060722209940202222..comments2024-03-03T04:40:39.492-05:00Comments on Fire Megan McArdle: Drinks With a Friend Are the New Cab Driverbradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-14768494287437281672009-11-11T22:09:39.939-05:002009-11-11T22:09:39.939-05:00"We basically bought a perpetual motion machi..."We basically bought a perpetual motion machine. "<br /><br />Summa neato, or, translating from pig latin, neat summation.Robin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-38366828950438595982009-11-11T16:15:23.025-05:002009-11-11T16:15:23.025-05:00i hereby coin (well, re-coin) the phrase "tho...i hereby coin (well, re-coin) the phrase "thought bubble" -- wherein you and a few like minded friends thoughtfully convince each other of the proposition that you start out believing. preferably "over drinks."nilseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-81329155676651580192009-11-11T15:02:32.523-05:002009-11-11T15:02:32.523-05:00About a week ago, I was having drinks with a frien...<i>About a week ago, I was having drinks with a friend and discussing John Kenneth Galbraith's dictum that "all financial innovation involves ... the creation of debt secured in greater or lesser adequacy by real assets," wrote the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in 1993.</i><br /><br />*Headsmack* Edit, Megan. EDIT, DAMN IT. I don't know who is paying this person, but I want to beat them up so badly it burns. She may very well be the sloppiest "journalist" I have ever encountered.clever pseudonymnoreply@blogger.com