What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn
Roy Prol wonders: What the rings would look like from different cities and latitudes accross the world. It’s interesting to imagine...
Ginnie Mae’s Delinquent Loan Rates
There is a long investigative piece in the Washington Post on Ginnie Mae, titled Mortgage agency’s growth gives fuel to risky...
Morning stuff
Initial Jobless Claims totaled 474k, 19k above estimates and up from 457k last week. Continuing claims, which capture 26 weeks of benefit...
Poll: TARP Bonuses Bad, Bank Fails Worse; TBTF OK
The folks in the United States seem to have some clear ideas about what they like and dislike, want and don’t want. Dislikes?...
Cash for Clunkers Visualization
Cash for Clunkers – Visualization and Analysis December 9th, 2009 Cash for Clunkers: A Dynamic Map of the Car Allowance Rebate Systems...
DeepCapture.com Scraping Facebook Friends
Here is something weird, and a little creepy: The freakshow that is DeepCapture.com seems to have grabbed all of the Facebook friends of...
The Office – Complete BBC Edition ($19)
Damn! After mentioning here that the complete Curb Your Enthusiasm was at half price, I dawdled — and missed the $79 sale. Not this...
Wednesday 10 Spot
A few interesting items for your reading pleasure: • China’s house prices jumped the most in 14 months, adding to concern that...
10 year note auction weak
The reopening of the Nov 10 yr note auction was on the weak side as the yield was about 4.5 bps above the when issued and the bid to...