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The Case is Made Clearly

…them dawdle long enough that the incoming Administration decides the fine, just so they’re really disincented from making money by developing good products.” Barry Ritholtz Explains It All to You….

Pro Publica and bailout lists

Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture points to Pro Publica regarding Tarp and other bailout monies: Pro Publica has been maintaining a list of bailout recipients, updating the amount lent…

Brad DeLong asks about the top ten econ blogs by net news wire

…Fox’s Curious Capitalist http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/ Barry Ritholtz’s The Big Picture http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/ James Hamilton’s and Menzie Chinn’s Econbrowser http://www.econbrowser.com/ Angry Bear http://angrybear.blogspot.com/ WSJ Real Time Economics http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/ Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/ Felix Salmon’s…

It’s not just housing…but you knew that.

…of house prices haven’t been cut enough, and won’t sell until they cut more.* But, courtesy of our fellow Gloom-and-Doom maven, Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture, we can see…

M3 Death Watch

…unhappy with the Fed’s decision to stop publishing data on M3. Some simply argue that more data is always better – for example, see yesterday’s post by Barry Ritholtz. But…

Interest Rates: The Very Long View

I liked a picture that Barry Ritholtz put up the other day showing interest rates over the past half century or so, and it got me to thinking. In particular,…

Housing Update

…purchased just before prices actually literally go down, are going to have problems.” Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, May 20, 2005 Finally, I would recommend Barry Ritholtz’ (The Big Picture) “Real…