December 2010
3 posts
The Best Blog of 2010
I regard every post at The Last Psychiatrist as required reading. For example:
“Mature people, when they go bananas, have a number of options for complicated bereavement. One option is to take on all that unconscious hostility and subsequent guilt (“I could have done more for him!— a few more bullets to the head!”) and develop a pathological, obsessive guilt. That’s...
The Moral Status of Inflation Hawks
But the people who invested absurdly, especially “savers” who lent money but permitted themselves ignorance and indifference to how their wealth would be mismanaged, have not suffered the costs of their recklessness. Instead, they have been almost entirely bailed out. It is lenders and investors more than any other group who determine the patterns of our macroeconomy. There are always people...
