Thursday, December 26, 2019

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

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.”