Learned hand, a wonderful name for a judge. So he is not a young person. Hes a middleaged person. He also plays a role in Justice Holmes changing of his mind. Can you talk about that a little bit . An interesting interplay of judges and this question. Learned hand was on on the Federal District court at the time. He was in his mid40s. He was a very well regarded judge of the philosophical event. He hears one of the first cases in the espionage act and one of the first judges to interpret the act and deal with these freespeech questions that it raises. He adopts a very narrow construction of the espionage act so as to leave a lot of room for free speech. And he does this before holmes writes in a these opinions. The hand is reversed by the Second Circuit that hes upset about this and he thinks he was right. Its really hand that starts this whole process among these men in trying to change holmes mind because the two men meet in the summer of 19 1819 just by chance on a train between was
Catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages on facebook or twitter or email us. You. Y good morning to thank you for joining us on this christmas morning. Talking about your political heroes for 2013. The question is up on the Facebook Page. We will also be reading your tweets this morning. This question posted on the Facebook Page last night. Already over 1200 response to it. Allen writes in on the Facebook Page, Elizabeth Warren is the best senator we have up there. Taking on the big tanks and Student Loan Debt crisis. Sayslow that tony a few other heroes being pointed says ted cruzle or rand paul is her hero. The phone lines are open. We will be taking your calls on the subject. Edward snowden, the subject of plenty of news of late. Here is the piece by amy goodman in the Albuquerque Journal this morning. Calling snowden an amendment hero. Also, some news on edward. Nowden, and im the ap yesterday Edward Snowden will speak directly to britain and the televised christmas
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I have worked on sovereign debt my entire life. It is a fundamental lyrical economy problem. The ability to play a is not the issue as much as willingness to pay or fairness as you have it. I think these are very important things. Let me pick a more monday in area where perhaps mundane area which is measurement. We talk about were gdp is. You have to understand that we did not even have this construct until it really started this with the commission and the 30s. At 21920 ninecked and economic historians have looked at it more sense. At 1929 and economic historians have looked at it more sense. It is considered there is a High Standard deviation around it. There are conceptual issues you hear about like intentional investment where you reorganize offices or firms, perhaps retraining people in ways that do not show up in gdp. They are a lot like investment. We do not measure them. Another issue where measurement is that it isem very, very hard to properly measure the inflation rate. The