Breakout Fails to Achieve Escape Velocity
Good Evening: After blasting off and reaching breakout altitudes this morning, U.S. stocks fell back to earth in the afternoon. That most...
Obama Budget Cuts Visualization
How much is the $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video imagines the budget as $100 in...
The 1980 Chrysler Bailout
A friend reminded me about this section of the book. This is an excerpt from early draft of Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money...
Death of a Radio Giant; Fear of Technology
Two fascinating entertainment stories caught my eye today — if you have any interest in Entertainment, Technology or Digital Media,...
The 14 Most Strident Critics of Obama
I found this piece — which was published at Salon while I was on vacay — to be amusing: “Meet the Cassandras, 14...
Waves and Tides Next Frontier for Energy Exploration
Several companies are developing technologies that aim to generate energy from ocean waves. (Pretty cool looking) 4/23/2009
Markets During Presidential First Terms
Sy Harding (who you may know from his prescient 1999 book Riding the Bear) had an interesting piece in Barron’s over the weekend....
Chicago PMI
Joining the less bad party that other regional surveys have experienced, the April Chicago PMI was 5 pts better than expected at 40.1, up...
William Buiter And The Controversy At The Federal Reserve
Former BOE policymaker Buiter on the Fed and Wall Street; Traders see 13% chance of Fed hike by the end of the year; Analysis by Willem...