Will Greece Pull an Iceland?
Iceland Told the Banks to Pound Sand … And Thereby Saved Its Economy Iceland told the banks to pound sand. And Iceland’s economy is...
7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast?
It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture...
Mid-Week PM Reads
My afternoon train reading: • Lowenstein: Corzine Forgot Lessons of Long-Term Capital (Bloomberg) • ‘Zombie’ Properties...
The UN Predicts The World’s Population Explosion
Click on countries to select: Source: The UN Predicts The World’s Population Explosion The Guardian, October 26, 2011
More on FOMC
Two more things on the FOMC. With all the tough talk from Fed Pres Fisher on current Fed policy and his stated distaste for QE2, timeline...
NASA: Working on Tractor Beams
‘Tractor beams — the ability to trap and move objects using laser light — are the stuff of science fiction, but a team...
FOMC speaks, Evans says do more
After saying that economic growth remains slow in Sept, the FOMC today said “growth strengthened somewhat in Q3, reflecting in part...
Mike Mayo’s Exile on Wall Street
Mike Mayo, bank analyst at Credit Agricole Securities USA, talks about his new book, “Exile on Wall Street: One Analyst’s...
Where The Jobs Are
~~~ Given the NFP release coming up on Friday, I thought it might be interesting to look at an obscure employment data point, via Jim...