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Reads of the Day for the start of 2009

…one’s home versus enter into one of these mortgage modification programs. As noted in the WaPo two weeks ago (via Stan Collender at Capital Gains and Games),** qualifying for the…

What to do with GM during bankruptcy

…choice. Like to play games? Then you’re looking at the highest-performing chip from Intel or AMD coupled with the highest-performing video card from NVidia or ATI. Why couldn’t the auto…

Judge Rules Against White House in E-Mail Case

…slip in a seriously important political story. More In Technology * Judge Rules Against White House in E-Mail Case * Midway Games Reports Loss * Sirius XM Takes $4.8 Billion…

Blind-Reference of the Week

…fair games, and the Fed is currently rigging the roulette wheel, so he’s taking his 800%+ return from last year and going home. This ‘graf in particular caught my eye,…

Champaign Bottle corks are popping today

…mortgages. To a skeptic, Paulson’s proposal looks like another of those shell games that Wall Street has honed to a fine art. Wall Street has always made money by slicing,…

One Alaskan’s take on the Palin business

…political games that have haunted this country for the last 8 years. I like Governor Palin on a personal level. But I don’t like what the McCain campaign is doing…

PSA

Via Andrew Samwick at Capital Gains and Games, note that David Altig’s Macroblog is back. (Altig is now the Research Director at the FRB Atlanta; it appears he has settled…

Meme of The Day: "Bond Vigilantes"

The gents at Capital Gains and Games—and soon, likely, the ma’am at EconMom—are in the throes of ecstasy (not necessarily the drug). There are “bond vigilantes” on the horizon. Stan…