J. Bradford DeLong (2002), "America's Date with Deflation," Financial Times (London: August 21, 2002).
Time to subscribe to the Financial Times. I'm blocked: my own writings are "subscriber only".
Clearly there will be no more reading the FT--a week's worth at the time--in the Berkeley library. The value of immediacy is just too high...
Posted by DeLong at August 20, 2002 08:59 PM | TrackbackCan't you change the options on your web browser to log into the Berkeley network from home? I'm sure there must be instructions on how at the Berkeley library site or something.
Posted by: Bobby on August 20, 2002 11:31 PMget a freebie ... I'm sure it's worth a free sub for the FT to retain the attention of an influential opinion-former like yourself, or at least it is if they're serious about breaking the USA. If I were you I'd email Andy Gowers and see if you can blag one.
Posted by: Daniel Davies on August 21, 2002 01:26 AMBrad,
The subscription is only about $8 a month (I doubt you'd need the bells & whistles one). You get some extras as well (Live Lex if you can stand it). At the moment tho' it's pretty annoying -- for some reason the software/website won't remember your password if you close the site down.
Matthew
Posted by: Matthew Turner on August 21, 2002 02:04 AMThe FT is the only ink-on-dead-trees sheet I subscribe to. Their web site is a horror.
As for the FT's value, away from pithy pieces like those of our blogmeister, I find the pink paper is often a dreary bulletin board of impenetrable Brussels/Berlin/Paris Eurocractic infighting twaddle...of great use to lobbyists and scheming back-benchers, but not much use to a capital markets guy.
Their company coverage alternates between smack-downs and puff-pieces, and their non-financial, non-Europe political coverage is similar in thrust to that of the NY Times.
Posted by: George Zachar on August 21, 2002 06:33 AMGeorge, my prescribion to you: the WSJ :)
Do you expect even a European (oops, pardon me, Brittish) newspaper not to cover European and Int'l news?
What would you think if the Int'l version of the New York Times barely had any coverage of American news...?
Posted by: Jean-Philippe Stijns on August 21, 2002 01:10 PMP.S. I don't make 'prescribions' but rather 'prescriptions'...
Posted by: on August 21, 2002 01:12 PMBrad-
Come on, do what all the others do. Assign the Financial Times to your classes, and get a free subscription that way. I mean , I am sure you get the weekly adds from the WSJ trying to get you to have your students subscribe so you can can get the year free.
Posted by: Rob on August 21, 2002 04:32 PMDo you expect even a European (oops, pardon me, Brittish) newspaper not to cover European and Int'l news?
Of course not. That wasn't my point.
My displeasure, I suppose, should not be directed at the *messenger*, the FT in this case, but the message - that life in Europe is increasingly ensnared by the opaque Brussels Eurocracy.
It's dull reading, but accurate as to what's important on the Continent, I suppose.
Posted by: George Zachar on August 21, 2002 06:19 PM