Mark Thoma: Cool It, Krugman: The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist

 My favorite Coward quote:  “It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”

'Multiple Sydney Harbours': The plan to drought-proof the state with lakes
NSW’s Emergency Services Minister David Elliott goes on holiday as fire danger ramps up again news.com.au

Cool It, Krugman: The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist Atlantic 

Climate change threatens billions in CalPERS pension fund Los Angeles Times 

The thing that flashed recession signal is moving in opposite direction CNBC 

The field was rigid and closed until Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View opened the debate to all comers Angry Bear. I owe a debt to Mark Thoma. When I started blogging and was getting 150 page views a day, I e-mailed Thoma with some of my posts. Not only did he link to them, but he was encouraging, saying when he started out, he got as many page view in a day that he later got in an hour.

A former American Airlines mechanic admitted he tried to sabotage a plane at the Miami airport. “Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, admitted that he intentionally tried to damage or disable an aircraft’s air data module (ADM) system, which reports aircraft speed, pitch and other critical data, on July 17.”