I’ll try to finish all the clips today. Here is the second batch and I went back to Krugman/Smith05 and unlocked it, sorry. That clip is also included here in case you don’t want to go back to the previous post to view it.
The Adam Smith & Paul Krugman Show
We’ll get back to health care tomorrow, but first I have several video clips to share.
Adam Smith is a best-selling author and for 14 years had a weekly show on PBS called Adam Smith’s Money World that won four Emmys and a Peabody Award. He’s a very smart guy. Smith was Tom Wolfe’s editor at Esquire, founded Institutional Investor and New York magazines, and somewhere in there about 25 years ago became a friend of mine. I try to collect heroes and this guy is definitely one of mine.
Smith lives in Princeton, NJ, next-door to Paul Krugman, Princeton professor, New York Times Op-Ed columnist and oh, by-the-way, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics.
I wonder how he invested that money?
On July 8th Smith […]
Medical Records R Us
This is the first of probably three columns on health care. The Obama Administration right now has in Congress legislation for reforming the U.S. health system so that sets my agenda. But the point of these columns isn’t to comment, per se, on the current proposals, but instead to look at what I believe to be my two areas of some strength — Information Technology and understanding complex systems — and see how they can be applied to this problem.
And it IS a problem. That’s the only part of this debate that all sides agree on. The doctors feel beleaguered and Lord knows that sick and uninsured people sure do, too. Even corporate fat cats […]
Falling Out of Orbitz
A lot of online behavior is habitual. My e-mail client is Eudora, for example — an orphaned program that hasn’t been updated since 2006. People keep telling me to switch to this or that but I like Eudora and have 17 years of mail stored in it, though I sense an end coming there. I also use Orbitz, primarily, for my travel planning. And it isn’t that Orbitz is particularly better (though not particularly worse since I use Kayak from time to time to compare) but that it holds already in its digital innards a whole succession of my credit cards as well as my five frequent flier numbers. Or it did.
You see Orbitz […]
The Waitress Who Ignored Cronkite
Thirty years ago I wrote a book about the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. One of the central characters in that book was Jon Ward, a producer for CBS News who ran the network’s coverage of the accident. Ward had actually anticipated such an event, gathering information on all U.S. nuclear plants in case one ever melted-down. My book made Ward a minor celebrity for a millisecond and may have helped his promotion to producer of the CBS Evening News. But the story Ward still likes to tell about that experience was of the waitress at a New York restaurant who asked for his autograph, ignoring completely Ward’s lunch partner, Walter Cronkite, who found […]
