There is a must see video at Economists View by Elizabeth Warren of Harvard University at U. Berkley lecture series on the The Coming Collapse of the Midddle Class. Noni Mausa says… Take the time. Watch this, I just did. It explains exactly why the middle class is in trouble and where the money has […]
K. Harris had a nice comment about the direction of causal relationship in my last blog. Care to discuss the direction of cause and effect in this chart of quality spreads and capacity utilization. Is the current quality spread a measure of the bond market forecast of economic activity? END
Surprising insights from the social sciences By Kevin Lewis April 6, 2008 Do conservative values and conservative economics go hand in hand? A sociologist looked at broad surveys of Americans to find out whether conservative Protestants – the 25 percent of the population belonging to churches that emphasize a literal reading of the Bible, personal […]
This article in the Private Equity Law Review indicates that unravelling the 45 Trillion could be interesting. Judge Christopher A. Boyko’s order dismissing a number of foreclosure actions brought by a CDO trustee throws a hard light on a common practice in real estate loan syndication. Due to the cost of properly assigning the notes […]
The NY Times had a very good article on inflationary pressure from Asia this morning. The article was titled Asian Inflation Begins to Sting US Shoppers. It did a very good job of giving information about how inflationary pressures were driving prices higher in Asia and correctlypointed out that it was showing up in US […]
Iraqi politics certainly is complicated. Try this article. So, I was at a great Center for American Progress panel yesterday with journalists Nir Rosen and Michael Ware. They have been in Iraq for most of the last five years and get the perspective on the ground the we don’t usually hear about here. Ware said […]
For those who want to have an extended conversation on Angry Bear on a topic that becomes increasingly private over time, we can try this: Create a post page for an ongoing project. So…on my Continuing conversation page page I include any notes I want my ‘team’ to see. When there are new information or […]
The Bulletin On line has an interesting set of essays on modeling and global warming. I snitched it from CoRev.
I have pulled two quotes from comments from a reader that state a view that might not occur to us. They are out of context, but I think might have some discussion value about perspectives. The first appears to stem from some of Greenspan’s ideas in a post on OCC regulation and state regulation. The […]
We are trying this open post on a Friday night. Blogger does not support threaded comments and such. But, the mike is yours, civility is not waived.