Archive for October 13, 2008

RIP Alton Ellis

Damn.
FOR 25 weeks in 2004, I’m Still in Love by deejay Sean Paul and singer Sasha sat in the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts. The song peaked at number 14 and was another hit from Sean Paul’s Dutty Rock album, but it also gave the man who did the original version his first ‘taste’ of [...]

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Respect for Krugman

One of the few economists I can actually understand, let alone agree with…

Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Princeton University professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on trade theory.
Krugman, 55, received the prize “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity,” said the [...]

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