Charlie Rose

Everyone is using Twitter these days. Econbloggers are getting in the spirit too. I have started to use it. I know Paul Kedrosky uses it. Even Yves Smith is thinking of getting in on it, although her inner luddite holds her back. So…

Bezos talks to Charlie Rose about internet retailing, the new Kindle 2, and more.

Since everyone seems to be talking about nationalization and pointing to Sweden as a model for the future, one should ask whether Sweden actually nationalized anything. No one is talking about outright Hugo Chavez-style expropriation here.…

The man who recently uttered the D-word about the global economy tells all to Charlie Rose.  The video is from this past Friday.

The news today is about interest rates and the economy. First, in the U.S., there has been a huge move to the upside in Treasury yields. The obvious question is whether we are seeing the Treasury bubble burst. There are numerous reasons…

Snowbound Marshall is doing an admirable job running things while I sun myself in the Bahamas (rubbing it in, eh?). You may remember Marshall from his days as a writer for Prudent Bear. Please do comment on his posts as he will respond in…

I have been doing these round-ups rather sporadically now, but the news flow is still considerable. In fact, the news flow is so much that I have off-loaded my links onto a feed which you can access here.The main story I am following is the…

Teddy Forstmann, one of the co-Founders of LBO giant Forstmann Little & Company, sounded the alarm earlier this year on the credit crisis. In an article from the Wall Street Journal that I chronicled here, Forstmann warned of impended…

I want to spread the love today, so I am highlighting some of the posts of my fellow bloggers out on the Internet. Most of us have noted that the economic data coming out recently really confirms the fact that we're in recession. What…