hail of dead cats – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:13:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Microblog 2008-09-22 https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/09/microblog-2008-09-22/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:59:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/microblog-2008-09-22/ I’ve renamed these telegraphic roundups “microblog” which seems more approachable than “Twitter”. Better name suggestions are welcome. Many countries had booms in housing finance, why was our meltdown worst? EconBrowser # Hail of dead cats from blogosphere for Paulson bailout plan PoL # Stunningly bad McCain idea: have Andrew Cuomo run SEC Mickey Kaus # […]

Microblog 2008-09-22 is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

]]> I’ve renamed these telegraphic roundups “microblog” which seems more approachable than “Twitter”. Better name suggestions are welcome.

  • Many countries had booms in housing finance, why was our meltdown worst? EconBrowser #
  • Hail of dead cats from blogosphere for Paulson bailout plan PoL #
  • Stunningly bad McCain idea: have Andrew Cuomo run SEC Mickey Kaus #
  • Business historian John Steele Gordon on origins of mortgage meltdown NYT Freakonomics guest post #
  • Going after lawyers in mortgage mess? New York Law Journal #
  • Obama to pick centrists for high court? Not if advisers Minow and Tribe can help it Kerr @ Volokh #
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    Microblog 2008-09-22 is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

    ]]>         Congress: let’s sue OPEC https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/05/congress-lets-sue-opec/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/05/congress-lets-sue-opec/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 03:57:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7023 This wretched proposal to pursue sensitive foreign policy goals by way of treble-damage antitrust suits against sovereign nations is met by a hail of dead cats from Below the Beltway, Gateway Pundit, Liberty Reborn, Buffalog, Coalition of the Swilling, Sense of Events, Q and O, Coyote, Politics in the Zeros, Socrates’ Academy, It’s a Funny […]

    Congress: let’s sue OPEC is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

    ]]>     This wretched proposal to pursue sensitive foreign policy goals by way of treble-damage antitrust suits against sovereign nations is met by a hail of dead cats from Below the Beltway, Gateway Pundit, Liberty Reborn, Buffalog, Coalition of the Swilling, Sense of Events, Q and O, Coyote, Politics in the Zeros, Socrates’ Academy, It’s a Funny Thing, Bronze Blog, Discerning Texan, Blog About Nothing, It Looks Obvious, NoBrainer’s, Wheeling Intelligencer, and Collideoscope, among others. Earlier here.

    And yet more: Perry de Havilland, Samizdata (“a derangement of legislators”)(via ASI).

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