Just Because — Fred & Ginger
Bookworm on Oct 20 2009 at 7:53 am | Filed under: Just Because Music
I was reading the news — none of it good — and desperately felt the need for a little joy and beauty. This number, from the 1936 movie Swing Time, beautifully brings together one of America’s great popular music composers (Jerome Kern) and two of the most elegant, exciting dancers who ever set tap to the floor (Fred & Ginger).
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You seem to be on a music kick lately, so I was amused to read this music-oriented entry on an economic blog. Actually, only the first third of it centers on music (a song I must confess I never heard, but one that makes me think of my foster daughter and her boyfriends over the last 3-4 years) but the rest of it is worth a read, and is actually written in a way that I can understand.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/10/on-us-dollar-europe-sings-classic.html
I must confess – I keep reading the economic blogs trying to get a handle on things, but I’m really tired of feeling totally ignorant! It’s like reading Greek – and I even took a year of that! I took Econ 101 same as everybody else, but if I thought it was even entry level preparation for this stuff, I was sadly mistaken!
suek…I am as confused as you and the economists are just as confused as we are.
The Keynes Bubble
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As Charles Prince, the former CEO of Citigroup, stated so succinctly in July 2007, just before the bubble burst: “When the music is playing, you have to get up and dance.”
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Unfortunately, the Obama stimulus measure was poorly designed and has, so far, resulted in relatively little stimulus. The tax-cut portion of it was largely saved by consumers rather than spent in a way that would create economic growth, while the spending portion is dedicated to subsidies for state and local governments, along with special provisions for less-than-productive pork-barrel projects favored by politicians.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-keynes-bubble-15243