Dan Perelman's Blog

2011-11-03T00:05:00.001-04:00

From On The Media: Currently, the government can avoid Freedom of Information Act requests in certain narrow circumstances by refusing to confirm or deny the existence of documents. But new rules proposed by the Department of Justice would allow the government to lie to requesters, saying that documents don't exist even when they do. Brooke talks to Michael German, Policy Council for the American Civil Liberties Union, about this proposed rule change.

Broke Bank Mounting - America's Dystopian Future

2011-06-30T01:37:00.009-04:00

From The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Samantha Bee reports from an eye-stinging, cancerous America ruled by apes, while Aasif Mandvi reports from a radioactive, post-Chinese repo America ruled by apes.

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'It's the demand side, stupid'

2011-06-30T01:29:00.009-04:00

From Marketplace by Robert Reich: How can the U.S. tackle its unemployment problem? Work on demand...

Freakonomics: When it's good to quit

2011-06-29T01:35:00.000-04:00

From Marketplace: Society often considers quitting as failure, but Freakonomics Radio's Stephen Dubner argues we should think more about the upsides to giving up...

Fight For Your Right - Revisited Trailer

2011-05-15T19:04:00.001-04:00

Official Trailer of "Fight For Your Right-Revisited", from the Beastie Boys' long anticipated eighth album, HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART TWO.

Decline of the working man

2011-05-03T19:50:00.007-04:00

From The Economist: "Of all the big, rich Group of Seven economies, America has the lowest share of “prime age” males in work: just over 80% of those aged between 25 and 54 have a job. In the late 1960s 95% worked..."

Unpaid Contributors Sue HuffPost

2011-05-01T20:13:00.001-04:00

From NPR's On the Media: "The Huffington Post built itself into a multi-million dollar brand, in part, using unpaid contributors. It’s a quid pro quo: HuffPost gets content for free while activists and celebrities get a platform for their opinions. No harm, no foul. But when AOL ponied up $315 million for the site, onetime HuffPost blogger Jonathan Tasini thought, hey, we deserve some of that. So he filed a class-action lawsuit."

Is HuffPost Good for Journalism?

2011-04-30T20:00:00.008-04:00

From NPR's On the Media: "When AOL spent $315 million to acquire the Huffington Post a month ago, the deal raised many questions. Bob talks to media critics and HuffPost founding editor Roy Sekoff and wonders what the site means to the future of journalism."

The Guantanamo Leak

2011-04-29T19:56:00.002-04:00

From NPR's On the Media: "More than 750 documents about Guantanamo were released recently by WikiLeaks to several news organizations. Meanwhile, an unknown leaker out-leaked WikiLeaks and shared the files with The New York Times and NPR. The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, who has covered Guantanamo for years, describes what she learned from the documents and shares her concerns about the leak."

Alleged Illegal Searches by NYPD May Be Increasing Marijuana Arrests

2011-04-26T19:07:00.001-04:00

From WNYC by Ailsa Chang: "Police arrest 140 people every day in New York City for possessing small amounts of marijuana. It's now by far the most common misdemeanor charge in the city, and thousands of these arrests take place when police stop-and-frisk young men in the poorest neighborhoods. While police say these stop-and-frisks are a way to find guns, what they find more often is a bag of marijuana. An investigation by WNYC suggests that some police officers may be violating people’s constitutional rights when they are making marijuana arrests. Current and former cops, defense lawyers and more than a dozen men arrested for the lowest-level marijuana possession say illegal searches take place during stop-and-frisks, which are street encounters carried out overwhelmingly on blacks and Latinos..."

At the New Bretton Woods, Sustainability is Inheritance

2011-04-11T21:48:00.005-04:00

From Marketplace by David Brancaccio: "Jean-Paul Fitoussi also sees the recent financial collapse as a crisis of sustainability. “We thought we were becoming richer, but in fact we were consuming out of debt, not out of income,” Fitoussi told me. “That means we were consuming our capital. Suddenly we discovered we were poorer than before.” The growth that led up to 2008, in Fitoussi’s view, was clearly unsustainable..."

Can't pay your mortgage? Get your house painted as a billboard

2011-04-10T21:42:00.005-04:00

From Marketplace by Bob Moon: "The deal is, the house must remain painted for at least three months to qualify for having your monthly mortgage picked up by AdZookie, for as long as the billboard is on display. The home must be owned, not rented or leased. The company says you can have the mortgage paid for up to a year, and after that, AdZookie promises to return the house to its original colors..."

Raise taxes on the rich

2011-04-09T21:38:00.006-04:00

From Marketplace by Robert Reich: "But it's just possible that the devastating budget squeezes in Washington and in state capitals, and the slashing of public services vital to the middle class and the poor, may prompt Americans to look back 50 years -- and ask why the super-rich shouldn't pay the same tax rates now as they did then..."

Indecision 2012 - Base Race

2011-04-08T21:52:00.016-04:00

From The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Michele Bachmann apologizes for the waterfall noise; Howard Cain refuses to appoint a Muslim; Newt Gingrich fears an atheist Islamist takeover; Rick Santorum blames Social Security troubles on abortion; Haley Barbour wants to reinstate "don't ask, don't tell"; Donald Trump calls for Obama's birth certificate.

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10 Dying U.S. Industries

2011-04-07T01:41:00.013-04:00

From Plante Money by Jacob Goldstein: "What kills an industry? Technological innovation or global competition. Take a look at this list from market research firm IBISWorld. It's for U.S. industries, and it's sorted by industry size..."

Why Paying Bribes Should Be Legal

2011-04-06T01:42:00.008-04:00

From Planet Money by Jacob Goldstein: "Say you have a tax refund coming to you. You head down to the local government office to pick up your check. But when you get there, the clerk says you can't have the refund — unless you pay him a bribe. So you pay the bribe, and the clerk gives you your refund. Both you and the clerk have just committed a crime, according to Indian law. Kaushik Basu, chief economic adviser to India's Ministry of Finance, wants to change that. It should be legal to pay this kind of bribe — but illegal to accept it, Basu argues in a recent paper..."

A First Amendment Round-Up

2011-04-05T01:38:00.001-04:00

From On the Media: "The Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case has sparked much controversy but New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak says the decision fits neatly into this Court's broad interpretation of protected speech under the First Amendment. Liptak discusses some recent First Amendment cases and what's up next for the court."

SLAPP Back

2011-04-04T01:34:00.000-04:00

From On the Media: "A SLAPP, or “strategic lawsuit against public participation,” is a little known but widespread threat to the First Amendment. SLAPPs are meritless suits brought by companies, individuals and sometimes the government, not to win, but to silence critics. Congress is now considering federal anti-SLAPP legislation. In this piece that first aired last year, OTM producer Nazanin Rafsanjani looks into SLAPPs."

Oil's role in the Libyan conflict

2011-04-03T22:10:00.008-04:00

From Marketplace by David Frum: "Countries do not fight wars for oil. That never makes economic sense. You can buy a lot of oil for the cost of even a small war. But countries do care intensely about security of supply. The possibility that oil-producing Libya might collapse into chaos deeply concerned Britain, France and Italy. Especially Italy. More than one-fifth of all Italian oil imports come from Libya..."

Program to lure Dutch dairy farmers to U.S. turns sour

2011-04-02T01:42:00.004-04:00

From Marketplace by Pat Blank: "Iowa was among several Midwest states to entice dairy farmers to relocate from the Netherlands. But more than a quarter of those operations have failed..."

How You Can Pull a GE on Taxes

2011-04-01T23:29:00.005-04:00

From The Wall Street Journal by Brett Arends: There's been a firestorm this week over the news that General Electric (NYSE: GE - News) will pay no tax -- at least, no federal corporate income tax -- on last year's profits. But if you're like a lot of people, your first reaction was probably: "Hmmm. How can I get that kind of deal?" You'd be surprised. You might. And without being either a pauper or a major corporation...

Food Prices Hit Record High, Spurring Worries About Global Unrest

2011-03-31T01:18:00.002-04:00

From The New York Times by Nathanial Gronewold: "The global food price index hit a new record high for the third straight month, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization said today. The index averaged 236 points in February, 2.2 percent higher than the previous all-time high set in January..."

How to Feed the World by 2050

2011-03-30T01:49:00.011-04:00

From The Atlantic by Samuel Fromartz: "So far the vast resources of commercial biotechnology have gone to commodity crops such as corn and soybeans (and soon alfalfa). The majority ends up as animal feed, and thus meat, which is the least efficient way to produce calories. Meat also happens to be available to the richest people, not the poorest. So, we haven't really used genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to "feed the world." Instead we've used them bring down the cost of industrial meat production and incentivize a transition to a meat-centric diet..."

Marijuana Business Potential Unearthed in Groundbreaking Study

2011-03-29T01:21:00.001-04:00

From Fast Company by Ted Rose: "The first ever study of its kind by See Change Strategy takes a deep dive into medical pot, a growth industry. Here's a free sample of the data. If you want more, though, you'll have to buy it..."

'Gamifying' The System To Create Better Behavior

2011-03-28T01:57:00.002-04:00

From NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday: "Imagine that same camera also snaps a photo of your car when you are driving at or under the speed limit. For your safe driving, you are entered into a lottery to win a portion of the money from fines paid by speeders. That idea was tested in Sweden with great success. It's an example of "gamification," considered the next wave of social engagement and Internet technology. Gamification "is the process of using game thinking and game mechanics to engage users and solve problems," says Gabe Zichermann, co-author of the book Game-Based Marketing and chairman of the Gamification Summit..."