Nathan Lustig

Bill Gates returned to TED this year to give an update on what his foundation had been doing for the last year, along with how he thinks the world can start to solve two of the biggest problems in the world today: disease and lack of good education.  Gates’ presentation can be described in one [...]

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I just realized today that Barack Obama’s new Education Secretary is Arne Duncan, the former head of the Chicago Public Schools.  He is a top notch choice who I think will do a great job.
I first heard about Duncan when I read Freakonomics a few years ago. He was the head of CPS when Steven Levitt [...]

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Paul Graham is one of my favorite writers right now.  Here’s his bio from his website:
Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired [...]

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I recently blogged about the Facebook ads called “Get Your Obama Check.”  Those appear to be gone already, but they have been replaced by new ones with a similar message.  These ads are called “Ball out of control at 23″  ”I make more than my dad” “Make $169 between classes” and a bunch of others. [...]

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Steven Pearlstein writes in today’s Washington Post about how the President of one of the smaller banks used some entrepreneurial skills to put some TARP money to good use.

Kim Price, the President of Citizen’s South Bank, located across the river in Charlotte from Bank of American and Wachovia, did not need TARP money because his [...]

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Betsy McCaughey’s article on Bloomberg titled “Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan” shines a light on a portion of the stimulus plan that I had not heard of until today.  Her article is impeccably sourced and links directly to pages in the stimulus bill.  It starts out with a provision that I don’t [...]

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