Week Ahead: Awful Earnings on Deck
Dow Jones Newswires’ Simon Constable and WSJ’s David Gaffen preview the start of earnings season and wonder whether investors...
What is a Depression?
I am working on an article for Bloomberg.com, and I hit upon an interesting issue. What, precisely, is a depression? Is there an official...
Lawrence Summers Comments on Jobs, Economy
Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy, talks with WSJ’s...
Top 100 Blogs (TBP = 47 ?)
I was pleasantly surprised to see TBP on the Wikio listing of top 100 blogs; Their ranking is not based on total traffic or Techorati...
Why Creditors MUST Suffer Also
I frequently disagree with Tyler Cowen — our world economic views are quite different, as are, I assume, our politics. But his...
Billion vs Trillion
We previously looked at a Billion vs 1,000 Million; This is a nice example of relative size of numbers: > > via NYT
Larry Summers: Wrong Man for the Job, Part II
The fun never stops around here. Yesterday, we noted the rampant conflict of interest that Summers works under. The latest brick thrown...
Words from the Investment Wise 4.5.09
Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 30 – April 5, 2009) “Words from the Wise” this week comes to...
Bill Black on Moyers on “Banksters”
The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the...
Jobs Report An Economic Reality Check
Despite recent glimmers of hope showing the economy is beginning to recover, Friday’s jobs report shows unemployment topped 5...