National Bailouts
Some of the Euro Nations are Getting into Difficulties in the Deb Market and May Need Some Help; Report and analysis by Rishaad Salamat...
Intelligent Loan Mods & Foreclosure Abatement
Today at 12:15 am, we shall learn of the Obama administration’s new housing plan. I suspect it will have many of the same doomed...
Zombie banks
We respond to the TARP hearing: Our two DC-based economics editors listen to Secretary Geithner’s testimony to the banking...
Value Trap?
Good Evening: The lingering effects of last week’s disappointment with U.S. policy initiatives, renewed banking worries in Europe ,...
Elvis Costello should keep his new job
Singer and song writer Elvis Costello should keep his new daytime job as a talk show host, Jon Friedman opines. 1:15 Marketwatch 2/16/2009
Inside the Meltdown
On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal...
If Bankers Were Firemen . . .
Very amusing Pat Bagley cartoon, via The Salt Lake Tribune > > http://extras.sltrib.com/bagley/Archive.asp?Vol=content&Num=10
Dow Dives 300; Nazz Flops 4%
Ugly day at the Ponderosa, as the Dow takes a swan dive 300 points, or 3.8%. Nasdaq fell 4%. Our new 100 Meg line is about to be lit up,...
Interview with Jim Chanos
NBR’s Darren Gersh talked with Jim Chanos, President of Kynikos Associates. He asked the legendary short seller for his take on...
StimulusWatch.Org
Interesting site that allows you to check on just about anything in the stimulus plan. You can search by keyword, federal program or by...