January 2009 - Page 7 of 44

> Source: Central Banks Are Creatures of Financial Crises JUSTIN LAHART WSJ, JANUARY 27, 2009...

Inside Look: A Severe Global Economic Contraction Bloomberg, January 27, 2009

As expected, William Dudley was named NY Fed Prez, and others were also named to key posts: William C. Dudley was named today to serve as...

WSJ’s Kelly Evans talks with S&P senior economist Beth Ann Bovino about what the latest round of corporate job cuts signal...

> Source: Home Price Declines Continue as the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices Set New Record Annual Declines New York,...

Today’s Case Shiller report for November 2008 showed a 18.2% decline y/o/y for the 20 city Home Price Index. This is the biggest...

via Dilbert.com

I couldn’t agree with this article more: Madoff Enablers Winked at Suspected Front-Running. I look at Madoff as a Sociopath —...

From 80 to 18 degrees: Settling back in after last week’s travel. I’ll see if I can get some photos posted later this week....

Good Evening: A day of mixed news led to a day of mixed results in Wall Street. Stocks initially rose on word of a large pharma deal and...