Sources: Comcast in Talks to Buy NBC
The late breaking news doesn’t seem to stop these days: “Comcast, the nation’s leading provider of cable, entertainment and...
GONE: BofA’s Ken Lewis
Bloomberg: Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth D. Lewis, his credibility battered by his handling of the Merrill Lynch...
Paul Volcker, Former Federal Reserve Chairman
Part I of Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, one of the wisest men on the economy. In part one of this conversation,...
Carl Sagan – Glorious Dawn (ft Stephen Hawking)
A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn –...
Strange Bedfellows
> “Sure, it may be great for us, but its Hell on the markets . . .” > via New Yorker Cartoon Bank
Afternoon Reading List
Items of note worth reading: • Best Quarter Since ’98 for Dow (WSJ) And the Dow only had to get cut in half to make it happen!...
No Way Has Housing Bottomed, Says David Levy
Bulls are beside themselves about the recent performance of the Case Shiller house-price index: Prices have risen for three straight...
Alumni Career Talks: SUNY Stony Brook
I find this terribly amusing: I am keynote speaker at Stony Brook University homecoming this coming weekend. Its billed as a “free...
Central Bank Exit Policies
Complete text of Vice Chairman Donald L. Kohn’s speech: Central Bank Exit Policies At the Cato Institute’s Shadow Open Market...