February 2009
74 posts
When Talking About Business Models, Remember That... →
The Judd Gregg Project →
Power's back →
January 2009
102 posts
Republicans Cheer for Chairman Steele →
“is partying with the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Taleb, Ferguson) and...”
– from @nouriel - probably the best Tweet I’ve ever read.
“Secretary Geithner already had to pull back on one institution that had gone...”
– I agree with every word MBB wrote below. I stared out a banker defender but this is getting/has gotten absurd.
Obama Harshly Criticizes Wall St. Bonuses - NYTimes.com
This is just getting outrageous. I don’t know whether the bonuses are more troubling or the fact that the Secretary of Treasury has...
Buiter: Create Parallel Banking System; Take Away... →
Let the Government Buy Corporate Bonds →
Ferguson: Cancel U.S. Debt →
Bonus Scandals Begin to Emerge →
well,
this is hilarious…
pablog:
i just randomly quoted john updike in a “most iconic super bowl moments” segment on the fox business channel.
Congress Report Predicts Cuts to Doctors →
I’ve been the bailouts biggest defender, but it’s tough to keep at-it, when you read items like this…as Citi gets $45b, doctors get cut so the government can save comparative pennies…
The Political Case For The Stimulus, If You're A... →
Schwarzman's Bailout Wishlist →
What Makes a Bank Too Big to Fail? →
Thoughts on Google and Apple's Earnings →
Shiller on Animal Spirits →
Hisham Melhem On His Big Scoop, and Big Changes... →
“Could this just be part of a campaign by Sorkin to get Fuld to talk to him?...”
– Sorkin Exonerates Fuld - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com
Felix gets personal on Andrew Ross Sorkin…
What can we learn from netbooks?
bijan:
Netbooks are taking off.
They clearly address pent up demand and they are especially timely during this economic climate. They are simple, small and low cost. And as the New York Times points out they are breaking old business models. They easily connect to the internet and with most of our data in the cloud - well, you can see which way the wind is blowing.
Netbooks are just a start. I...
How the New York Times Can Thrive Without Profits →
The Four Questions: Martin Indyk on the Failure of... →
What Would Google Do? on sale today →
“So for all of the reasons I’ve outlined above — Transparency & Values,...”
– Zappos Blogs: CEO and COO Blog: How Twitter Can Make You A Better (and Happier) Person
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, has a full post describing his thoughts about Twitter.
(via bijan)
“Other money managers made similar winks and nods about Madoff’s advantage,...”
– Bloomberg.com: Madoff Enablers Winked at Suspected Front-Running
Since the beginning of this, I’ve believed what Paul Kedrosky said: A lot of Madoff investors (and middlemen) believed it was a scam (front-running) and they wanted in…
I don’t want to “blame the...
The Death Of Newspapers? Here Comes The Rise Of... →
David Bergman |1,474 MP Presidential Inauguration... →
“Quite simply, FNL is the best date show ever, an improbable cross between The...”
– The Sports Guy: Don’t turn off the “Lights” - ESPN Page 2
“Contrary to what everyone seemed to be saying even a few weeks ago, being a...”
– The pain in Spain … - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Did the euro-skeptics get one right? I don’t know…but in a crisis, it seems the ability to devalue is a powerful instrument (one governments may want to think twice about giving up)…
Note: Obviously, this only applies to...
TPMDC | Talking Points Memo | Oberstar: Mass... →
That’s a mistake…
“The real case for throwing money out of helicopters is that it looks like it...”
– John Hempton - Bronte Capital: Why the Federal Reserve should LITERALLY throw money out of helicopters
Boring-Banker Syndrome - Dual Perspectives -... →
Nationalize Now →
Settler Rabbi to Soldiers: Fight Like Samson →
Video: Steve Jobs Giving His First Big Demo →
“It’s that Pat Toomey, who proved to be a terrible thorn in Sen. Arlen...”
– Undercovered Political Story Of The Day - Marc Ambinder
An excellent point from Ambinder. Obama’s “good luck” continues :) - With Specter, Snowe, and yes, McCain around, Obama should be able to reliably cobble together 60 votes.
I’m not sure what the over/under on first...
Bankers’ Pay as Sign of the Apocalypse →
“Arrange our basic economic institutions to maximize productivity, and then...”
– The growth-maximizing welfare state (via treyblog)
What would Larry Summers do? - The Atlantic... →
The only standard that really matters…
Freed by the U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief -... →
“P.S. The product, in Alpha release, now being utilized by 200,000, although we...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Boxee (via bijan)
Trey Kollmer - "On Intellectual Dishonesty"
mbb:
Trey has joined the tumblr-sphere. His first post may eventually evolve into an entire discourse on the subject, “On Intellectual Dishonesty” -
It’s almost always beside the point. It muddles the initial argument by adding a second argument: “You’re argument A is wrong. AND on top of that, you are being like so intellectually dishonest right now.”
Welcome Trey!
“I’ve been in multiple conversations here with people about Obama. People...”
– Fofie Mgbako (in Salvador) - A Year of Thoughts: Obama and The World: Recognition and Re-cognition
Jay Winik on Lincoln's Lessons for a New President... →
Whitehouse.gov: Looking Back at 12 Years of the US... →
The Wired Presidency: Can Obama Really Reboot the... →