AIG Repaying Uncle Sam? Not By a Long Shot
Today’s AIG announcement has generated some surprisingly naive headlines. The company may have announced U.S. bailout exit plan,...
Tom Keene’s New TV Show
For those of you who are not in the heart of the NY media beast, this may be a little bit “Inside Baseball,” but Bloomberg...
Top 10 Ideas for Goldman Sachs New Ad Campaign
Its been a challenging few years for Goldman Sachs. The financial collapse, the bailouts, the SEC case. That damned Matt Taibbi refuses...
Stocks in Sept, REAL vs NOMINAL
In nominal terms and assuming no big change today, Sept will be the 2nd best on record for the S&P 500, a great run of almost 10%....
Chicago PMI solid but need to see ISM
Sept Chicago PMI was much better than expected at 60.4 vs the forecast of 55.5 and up from 56.7 in Aug and 62.3 in July. The internals...
PIG and Japan and China! Oh my!
Moody’s downgraded Spain from its top rating but is only now in line with Fitch and still a notch above S&P. From the maturing...
Post # 15,000
This is The Big Picture‘s 15,000th post. By the numbers: 15,000 Posts 79 Categories 2,066 Tags 278,977 Comments 65,127, 737 Page...
So What Could Really Turn the Economy Around?
I know Carl through a mutual friend — he’s in Washington State, and had been very successfully running several 100 million dollars,...
Unlocking Visual Thinking
We get lots of email around these parts, but one of the most consistent inquiries over the years has been: “What’s the deal...
Art + Science = Sculptural Data
Nathalie Miebach focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Some of his...