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Pete Cashmore launched a blog called Mashable from his home in Scotland in 2005.  You may have seen the articles from the site in the links from time to time. Well, this happens to be the number 1 social media-focused blog on the…

I intend to post a “Healthcare Links” post later today.  I am modelling on my Credit Crisis Timeline. But, the purpose is to present a fairly good distribution of informed articles on the health care reform debate.  I don’t agree…

My RSS Feed is spitting out 25 posts an hour for some reason.  I apologize for the nuisance.  We are working to fix it.

We expect to have a brief hiccup in service later tonight due to maintenance.  I apologize for the inconvenience.  Hopefully, we will be offline for a very short time. Regards.   Edward

You will never hear this term again on Credit Writedowns – not from me, not from Marshall or anywhere else.  I am sick of hearing this phrase and am banning it for good – hoping it goes away and dies a gruesome and painful death.…

This is a new, progressive economic policy blog from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute that launched on April 29th. The effort is lead by Robert Johnson, former Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee. With…

I have grown pretty frustrated with FeedBurner, the RSS Feed Service now owned by Google.  Often, my posts have not  gone out immediately. There are significant 'outages' where the service is just plain broken.  And their Feed count…

I will be on the BBC World Service at 2PM ET talking about the Chrysler bankruptcy. First will be a television interview and then a radio interview. I will post the clips if and when they become available.

This past Sunday Felix Salmon wrote a post called "10 reasons for the lack of German econobloggers." I found it inaccurate and offensive. Let me tell you why. I was in Germany at the time I read the post and had been there for the…

I am just back from the Easter Holidays and have had a good two weeks for self-reflection.  In truth, I am feeling a bit exhausted despite the fact that I was supposed to have just had a two weeks' holiday. So, I have decided to make a few…