The Fall Street Bear Index
From cuddly teddy bear, to growling starving bear, here is your bear market index, courtesy of FallStreet.com. Hat tip Scott.
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Bubbles, Employment and Recalculation
Calculated Risk has a post out today called Bubbles and Employment. The gist of the post is that interest rates play a role in creating bubbles as demonstrated by data on employment and common property yard-sticks like price-to-rent and…
Terrorism, full-body scans and privacy in the digital age
I am reminded of the 2002 Spielberg movie “Minority Report” when I think of the digital age, terrorism and privacy concerns. The movie is interesting not just for its Big Brother overtones, but also because of its prescience on…
Bloomberg continues to push the Geithner-AIG cover-up issue
Below is the latest Bloomberg News video on the Geithner-AIG cover-up. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), who learned by investigation that the NY Fed asked AIG to withhold information about payment to its counterparties, is now asking…
Links: 2010-01-11
More links are available in the news feed (also available as an RSS feed). Hank Greenberg's Self-Serving, Largely Off-Base Salvo at Goldman - naked capitalism Selling from retail investor will outlast buying from hedge funds - The…
The Chinese bubble economy
The well-regarded and surprisingly independent Beijing-based media outlet Caijing is no more. The site is up, but the content is frozen in time, nothing having been written since early November. Happily, Caijing editor Hu Shuli has now…
Links: 2010-01-10
Many more links are available at the news feed (which is also available as an RSS feed). Main Street to Wall Street: We don't buy the rally The people of Iceland deserve our sympathy | Business | The Observer Financial…
Obama: The Transactional President
Reading the news today, I came across an NPR article that I believe captured the political mood in the U.S. rather well. While the stress of the article is on disillusionment from Obama’s base of supporters, I believe much the same…
The week in review at Credit Writedowns: 2010-01-09
Most Read Byron Wien: Ten Surprises for 2010 More on Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2010 Definition of terms The Democratic Party meltdown of 2010 Geithner urged AIG to withhold information Leading a reader to water…
Tim Geithner impersonates Jack Nicholson… again
The White House Stands Behind Geithner, Says Tim Was Not Involved In AIG Email Fiasco is the headline of a recent post at Zero Hedge. Barack Obama is standing behind Tim Geithner. I remain unconvinced. This is the second time Secretary…