The Dry Season
A drought in the Oklahoma Panhandle is poised to do what the Dust Bowl couldn’t — drive towns in this parched region out of...
Market focusing on 1 sentence
As should have been expected, the June 21-22nd FOMC meeting had members discussing their exit strategy with days before QE2 was winding...
Flickr + Twitter = Geotagg Goodness
Eric Fischer shows where people post geotagged photos to Flickr from and geotagged tweets to Twitter from. Here’s a zoomed in view...
Timeline: America’s Job Losses and Gains
Very cool animated graphic in this Justin Lahart/James Hagerty column: Where Have America’s Jobs Gone?. > click for timeline...
The European Job
The European Job Jawad Mian 12 July 2011 > The following was written by Jawad Mian, Portfolio Manager based in Doha, Qatar ~~~ In...
QOTD: Financial Crisis Recoveries
How prescient was this, circa January 2008: “Broadly speaking, financial crises are protracted affairs. More often than not, the...
David Walker: GOP Being “Very Unreasonable”
~~~ Source: GOP Being “Very Unreasonable”: Could Lose House Over Debt Ceiling Debate, Walker Says Peter Gorenstein Daily Ticker, July...
Tuesday Morning Reads
The news gets more fascinating everyday: Here’s what will start off your morning going: • Profits Climb to 51-Year Mean as...
A lot of morning stuff
Italian bonds are lower for a 7th straight day but off its lows of the morning after Italy sold 1 yr debt at around 5am. The yield though...
Italy Yesterday, Spain Today
Selling pressure continues this morning, though somewhat less intensely than yesterday according to US futures. Following the news out of...