Meet The Players in Today’s AIG Hearings
There is quite a bit of reading on this today: • ‘It All Came Together’: Emails Reveal Fed Staffers During AIG Crisis (WSJ)...
Is it Time for a 3rd Party?
Whenever people ask me what my party affiliation is, I respond “Pragmatic Independent.” The question usually comes up in...
5 Questions About the Apple iSlate
With everyone trying to guess what the new iSlate will look like, let’s take a step back. Expectations are high, and are probably...
Podcast: Housing Helix w/Jonathan Miller
I did about a 45 minute interview with Jon Miller yesterday: You can listen on iTunes or click the picture below for audio
Map of Healthy and Ailing Markets
Interesting graphic approach describing the recent crisis from the Harvard Business Review: Each big circle on the map represents GDP;...
S&P500 Sector Trivia
I’ve been meaning to share this with you, and having David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff on Bloomberg Surveillance this morning...
Geithner: Dead Man Walking?
As the pile of revelations regarding the NY Fed’s bailout of AIG gets deeper and uglier, the sense that Treasury Secretary —...
Consumer Confidence up/labor market answers show a sign of life
Consumer Confidence was 55.9, 2.4 pts above forecasts and up from 53.6 in Dec. It’s at the highest since Sept ’08 and the...