These are the open tabs on my browser. They may get a post tomorrow, may not. • Paul Krugman runs the numbers, plugs in some rumors, and worries that the stimulus will be far too small. He thinks we need a package at 4 percent of GDP, but is hearing 2 percent. • Megan McArdle on the difference between bailing out GM and the financial industry. "Money is weird. Finance is weird. There is no other industry that is, first, so tightly coupled, and second, severely affects every other industry in the country...Strategic injections of capital can actually salvage operations that are otherwise sound. GM's operations are not otherwise sound. They have been headed for this moment since 1973." • I'm about 80 percent through "The Joshua Generation," David Remnick's essay on Obama and race. It's the sort of piece that's too big and deep and contemplative to really blog about, which is bad for my blog but really good for anyone who gives themselves the time and the space to print it out and read it thoroughly.
