"Irish relied on good post-Christmas home form to bail themselves out of trouble last campaign, but this time the objective will be to tuck themselves into mid-table with some more impressive early season results and then reassess.
I could go on, but Michael Brendan Dougherty has a good post on the same exasperated theme, so go read him instead.
Gavyn Davies, one-time Goldman economist and new FT blogger, has a good post on this issue, with a link to the paper by the Fed's St Louis president James Bullard, which points to the need for QE.But the double-dip theory looks a bit more plausible after the non-farm payrolls data.
Two days earlier, Brown and Rihanna had released recordings in which each appeared on a remix of the other's song (Ta-Nehisi Coates had a good post on these).
Kash, at the Street Light, has a very good post on the price of gold and its relationship or lack thereof to inflation fears.
5.10pm: 5.10pm: Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland's political editor, has written a good post on his blog explaining why the SNP managed to do so well.
Faisal Islam, Channel 4 News's economics correspondent, has got a good post on his blog explaining why the Treasury is so sensitive about this.
(Dahlia Lithwick, at Slate, has a good post on the darkness of the vision the Court's conservatives have embraced instead).
Wired's Danger Room had a good post on the "band of geeks" in Tahrir Square, and how they've done their part.
And how can we tell Left-wing blogger LizardBreatell Left-winggood post on the subloggerany EngLizardBreathwell, words in any natural language), particularly thaskinds of words that are important in political arguments, haverymprecise referents that shift with context.
JAMES HAMILTON has written a good post on the issue of the American government deficit:[T]he question before us is, what will the situation be another two years down the road, when the government will need to go back to bond markets to roll over the debt it issued on Monday along with new debt to cover the several trillion added to the federal debt between now and then?
