Humans Are Awful at Predicting Their Own Behavior This morning, Steve Liesman on CNBC showed all of the National Retail Federation numbers for spending plans this holiday season.... Read More
Clint Eastwood: 35 Years, 35 Films Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros I am a huge Clint Eastwood fan — I love the Spaghetti Westerns that,... Read More
The Daily Show: The War on Christmas Fox News objects to Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee leaving “Christmas” out of the Statehouse tree lighting ceremony... Read More
Occupy Movement . . . Gaining Strength? OWS: Down, But Not Out … While some might assume that the Occupy movement is dead – given that scenes of large protests have been... Read More
10 Tuesday PM Reads Afternoon LIRR reading: • Nobel economist: Euro zone needs own bonds and tax (Reuters) see also Downgrade Threat Irks Governments... Read More
Media Appearance: Dylan Ratigan Show (12/6/11) > This afternoon ~4:15pm we will be discussing the EuroZone, Derivatives and Swaps. Bullet points: • Swaps and Derivatives serve a... Read More
After Banks’ Mistakes, Homeowners Pick Up Pieces Source: After Banks’ Mistakes, Homeowners Pick Up Pieces by Chris Arnold Read More
Wall Street’s Recidivists Wall Street firms continue to look at SEC settlements as the cost of doing business. Despite promises to not repeat the same law, they... Read More
Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet An illustration of a black hole the size of nearly 10 billion Suns. Inside it, where gravity is so in- tense that not even light can... Read More
European Banks Reluctant To Lend To One Another Source: Arbor Research > Banks in the EU seem to be going to their central banks a lot more frequently then they used to:... Read More