Has the Fed bought the Economics profession?

There’s an intriguing and well written, though overly long, article over at HuffPo called “How the Federal Reserve Bought the Economics Profession“.
The basic idea is that so many economists work for the Fed, have worked for the Fed, or want to work for the Fed that their desire to please their employer has stifled debate [...]

Crazy Things

1. Counterproductive craziness- I always suspected that tinfoil hats actually help the government/aliens to infiltrate your brain.  Now a study by electrical engineers at MIT confirms my suspicions.
2. So crazy it must be satire, and actually is- Obama is Literally Hitler.
3. Bridges made entirely from the roots of living trees.  Elves must have been involved.
4. [...]

Nuclear Nazi Assassin: Making Maine look good

My native Maine seems to produce about a story a year featuring backwoods types who do really messed up things, but this story blows away all the others.
Apparently a wannabe-Nazi living in Belfast was building a dirty bomb to set off at the Presidential Inauguration, but was murdered by a vigilante (his wife?).
The only thing [...]

Conspiracy Theory In the Making

Dec 8: Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has all state agencies suspend business with Bank of America, in retaliation for their decision to withdraw financing from a distressed local manufacturer.
Dec 9: Blagojevich is arrested on federal corruption charges, for “attempting to sell appointment to a U.S. Senate seat”.
Need more proof than this that the banks secretly [...]

France Releases UFO Records

Not only are they declassified, they are available on an easy to use website!
Lifting the veil of secrecy is the easiest way to convince people that all the sightings have been hoaxes, hallucinations or comets (unless, of course, we really are covering up some crash-landed spacecraft).
The French site classifies the sightings into four groups; group [...]

CIA makes stunning display of competence

The CIA getting something so right sounds like a wacky conspiracy theory… but a really cool one.   The tale of the “accidents“.