2009

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This comes via the Wall Street Journal: Fairfield Residential LLC, one of the nation's largest apartment owners and developers, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, the latest casualty of the turmoil engulfing the U.S. real-estate market.…

The closing of the Bank of the United States could be considered the event during the Great Depression that was most akin for the U.S. to the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year.  The event occurred on 12 December 1930 – so 79 years…

The Irish government announced draconian spending cuts of 6 billion Euros in order to stave off a debt crisis in the worst modern-day downturn in the nation’s history.  Even so, Irish government bond yields have been rising relative to…

Most Read Buiter: “It’s Five Minutes to Midnight for Greece” Jon Stewart says Gretchen Carlson is dumbing herself down for Fox Mental Midgets and Moral Pygmies John Mauldin: “Nobody’s holding a gun to your head” on stocks…

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Back at ya, Captain Kirk See Shatner’s reading of Palin here and of Levi Johnston here. (video embedded above) Oh and if you want a little TJ Hooker action, here it is too.

Below is the latest from John Mauldin via his weekly newsletter. John expects a double dip recession as I do. Here he talks about what I call structurally high private sector unemployment i.e. unemployment in the private sector that cannot…

The headline at Bloomberg reads “Ireland, Greece May Leave Euro, Standard Bank Says.”  Before I even started reading this I was sceptical.  The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard makes calls like this, but his Euro-sceptic views…