Oh.

That explains it.

Findings - For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It - NYTimes.com

The Depth of the Housing Problem

For Sale: 5 BR Detroit Manse, $8995 | The Big Picture

An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind

Obsidian Wings: An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind

Marginal Revolution: More niggling on fiscal stimulus

Will a fiscal stimulus work?
The evidence is not great.

Marginal Revolution: More niggling on fiscal stimulus

Many Will Continue to Be Caught Out

Why this is twice as bad as the dot.com crash and why the S&P could decline another 30% next year.


Financial Armageddon: Many Will Continue to Be Caught Out

How Much Has Harvard Really Lost?

Edward Jay Epstein: How Much Has Harvard Really Lost?

Quantitative easing

Some useful mini lectures on financial topics of the day.


Quantitative easing | Marketplace Whiteboard | Marketplace from American Public Media

Keynes

The Keynesian wave.

FT Martin Wolf

Republicans

Things could be worse Part III

Maybe we should be thankful. For a while

Cost of Banks | The Big Picture

I I think that Japan is cheap.


Cost of Banks | The Big Picture

Greenspan Roundtable.

What should be done? Greenspan Version.

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong: We Are Live on Economist Free Exchange at the Greenspan Roundtable

If You Want Peace, Prepare for Peace, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Give peace a chance.


If You Want Peace, Prepare for Peace, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Hedge Fund Gates are Growing

A technical paper on the value reduction of gating hedge funds.

AllAboutAlpha.com» Today's Post » New study on redemption gates requires a closer look

Innovation

In art and in finance.


Bruce Eric Kaplan : “Where does he get all his ideas?” - Cartoonbank.com

Alea | You Can’t Make This Up

Fairfield Greenwich was founded by a former enforcement officer at the SEC.



Alea | You Can’t Make This Up

Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest

Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest

What makes Obama Great

The ability to higher people smarter than himself.


My last words on the Steven Chu front - James Fallows

How Software Models Doomed the Markets | The Big Picture

The problem with too many smart math people who did not know the underlying assets.


How Software Models Doomed the Markets | The Big Picture

If something seems to good to be true...

It probably is.
In life and in finance.
Says Andrew Lo
Be Wary of Serial Correlation | The Big Picture

And said Barron's in 2001

Graphical display of Information

Gets even better.

Immigration to the US | The Big Picture

I always wondered what this looked like

GuidePostings: Dead Cat Bounce

Smarter guys than me lost more money

The shine comes off endowments | Ivory-towering infernos | The Economist

Capitalist Fools

A look at the personalities that caused the problems.

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/stiglitz200901

What to Do - The New York Review of Books

Krugman

What to Do - The New York Review of Books: "closer to a full temporary nationalization of a significant part of the financial system. Just to be"

What Would Keynes Have Done? - NYTimes.com

Economic View - What Would Keynes Have Done? - NYTimes.com

Bronte Capital: The Brad DeLong question - and how to design a bailout that works

Nationalize the banks is the cheapest and best way


Bronte Capital: The Brad DeLong question - and how to design a bailout that works

China How Bad Can t Get

Disturbing evidence out of china

naked capitalism: China's Economic Slowdown Accelerated in November

Bernanke

A Reporter at Large: Anatomy of a Meltdown: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Greg Mankiw's Blog: The Financial Crisis

Greg Mankiw's Blog: The Financial Crisis

The Origins of the Financial Crisis - Brookings Institution

The Origins of the Financial Crisis - Brookings Institution

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Competing Alliteration

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Competing Alliteration

All about risk:The 3 laws of risk, and their implications for an inter-connected financial system

Rogue Economist Rants: The 3 laws of risk, and their implications for an inter-connected financial system

Sovereign Wealth Funds

What was all the fuss about?

Brad Setser: Follow the Money » Blog Archive » Bonfire of sovereign wealth funds?

Donald Kohn's essential speech | Free exchange | Economist.com

Another postmortem by fed vice chair Donald Kohn

Donald Kohn's essential speech | Free exchange | Economist.com

Academia Speaks

A newish paper on the liquidity crunch. Not much new but a good timeline.

http://www.princeton.edu/~markus/research/papers/liquidity_credit_crunch.pdf

What happened to Citi

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong: Le Citi Toujours Dormer...

How to make a small Fortune

Start with a large one

Harvard University's investment errors. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

Election Map

Another way to look at national election maps.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

Classic McCain Palin

The Morning After | The Big Picture

Sarah Palin vs. George Bush vs. Dan Qualye

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong

The Transformation of Levittown - NYTimes.com

The Nation - The Transformation of Levittown - NYTimes.com

Greg Mankiw's Blog: An Epistemological Digression

Greg Mankiw's Blog: An Epistemological Digression

Obama

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/opinion/05wed1.html?hp

The markets rule on the Bush Presidency

http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fbigpicture.typepad.com%2Fcomments%2Fatom.xml

Why Vote

Because the stakes are huge

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2008/11/why_so_much_voting.cfm

There is nothing we can not do

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=OofHuLW6xdM&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/

We should all get sappy about this

The daughter of a slave has the chance to vote for our next black president.


Obsidian Wings: In Which I Get Sappy

Tiny bubbles | Free exchange | Economist.com

Can the fed pop bubbles before they get too big. Roach thinks yes.

Tiny bubbles | Free exchange | Economist.com

History of the Crisis (Another)

The Fantasy Testimony Continues, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Things could be worse Part II

Financial Armageddon: Worse this Time

A new role for the Fed?

Financial Stability

FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - Add ‘financial stability’ to the Fed’s mandate

Why are we afraid of our shadow?

Recession During the Cold War: What Was It Like? What's Wrong With Us Now?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Lessons from China

Maybe a solution for future financial crisises?

Beijing Olympics Building Chief May Be Executed for Corruption - NYTimes.com

Powell Endorses Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

Powell Endorses Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

Why does someone get a Noble.

About the work - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog

Congratulations, Paul Krugman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Congratulations, Paul Krugman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Paul's Nobel: Nicht Ein Unrecht, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Most definitely not a partisan hack.

Paul's Nobel: Nicht Ein Unrecht, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

S&P 500 VS NIKKEI 225

Things could get worse.

Angry Bear: S&P 500 VS NIKKEI 225

There's No Easy Way Out of the Bubble - WSJ.com

No understatement here

There's No Easy Way Out of the Bubble - WSJ.com

Economist's View: The Price of Opacity

Economist's View: The Price of Opacity

"How Risk Sensitivity Led to the Greatest Financial Crisis of Modern Times"

Economist's View: "How Risk Sensitivity Led to the Greatest Financial Crisis of Modern Times"

Marginal Revolution: What caused the financial crisis?

Marginal Revolution: What caused the financial crisis?

The Big Picture | Fannie Mae and the Financial Crisis

The Big Picture | Fannie Mae and the Financial Crisis

A Canadian'sView on the crisis

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Some thoughts on the bubble/s and financial crisis/es

U6 is a better measure of real unemployment

Economist's View: "We are Going over the Edge"

What Caused the Financial Crisis?

Economist's View: What Caused the Financial Crisis?

Roger Congleton's notes on the credit crisis

Marginal Revolution: Roger Congleton's notes on the credit crisis

Marginal Revolution: My views on the crisis -- a summary statement

Marginal Revolution: My views on the crisis -- a summary statement

What would Franklin say?

Life goes on: On April 14, 1938, FDR reminded listeners, “The never-ceasing evolution of human society will doubtless bring forth new problems which will require new adjustments. Our immediate task is to consolidate and maintain the gains we have achieved. “In this situation there is no reason and no occasion for any American to allow his fears to be aroused or his energy and enterprise to be paralyzed by doubt or uncertainty.”


Deal Journal - WSJ.com : In Lieu of Any Real Leadership, Let's Ask Franklin D. Roosevelt

More Commentary on the Financial Mess

Greg Mankiw's Blog: More Commentary on the Financial Mess

YouTube - The Dark Bailout

YouTube - The Dark Bailout

Kenneth Moskow

Kenneth Moskow, 48; agend for the CIA fought terrorism - The Boston Globe

More Bush foreign Policy

Pakistani and American Troops Exchange Fire - NYTimes.com

: A Defense of the Paulson Plan

Greg Mankiw's Blog: A Defense of the Paulson Plan

The Theory behind the Rescue Plan

Big brother knows better

Greg Mankiw's Blog: The Theory behind the Rescue Plan

A Simple Explanation of What Went Wrong

The Big Picture | A Simple Explanation of What Went Wrong

Buffett

Heard on the Street - WSJ.com

What 700 billion buys

naked capitalism: Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout Proposal

Stock Market Crashes and Stuffed Shirts—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)

Galbraith on Stock Market Crashes and Stuffed Shirts—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)

Five Great Investment Papers - Bill Rempel, a.k.a. NO DooDahs!

Five Great Investment Papers - Bill Rempel, a.k.a. NO DooDahs!

Everyone cannot get a Pony

EconLog, My Campaign-Season Pledge, Arnold Kling: Library of Economics and Liberty

Nicholas Lemann on What makes Politics

Conflict of Interests: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker

How Chicago Shaped Obama

The Political Scene: Making It: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Love the UK view of US.

Medium Lobster: Your guide to America's next vice president | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

We need more risk

naked capitalism: Too much risk?

Last Lecture Randy Pausch: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

It is what it is..

YouTube - Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Conservative Economists for Obama

Greg Mankiw's Blog: The View from Chicago

Foreign Investors Change Their Fight Path in Japan - WSJ.com

Foreign Investors Change Their Fight Path in Japan - WSJ.com

Worth the 4 year wait

Time for Some Campaignin' | Funny Video Animation by JibJab

Goldman Investment Underscores Twist on China Research - WSJ.com

Goldman Investment Underscores Twist on China Research - WSJ.com

Goldman research services to cover China

Goldman research services to cover China

Banning Futures

Marginal Revolution: Onion Futures

McCain Flips

Egregious Moderation: Steve Benen: 61 McCain Flip-Flops

History of the US since 1980

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong

Not Again

Can Bush really be this dumb?

Annals of National Security: Preparing the Battlefield: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

The state of Real Estate from a Bear

Financial Armageddon: I've Still Got Chills

Pandit on Financial Reform

Toward a Transparent Financial System - WSJ.com

The Bluefin Tuna in Peril: Scientific American

The Bluefin Tuna in Peril: Scientific American

America's Ziggurats in Iraq

Tomgram: Why We Can't See America's Ziggurats in Iraq

Now it is clear.

Alea | The Chronology and Links of Propagation of the Sub-Prime Shock across Structured Finance Markets

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

You see? If all you remember in years to come is the ‘gay wizard’ joke, I’ve still come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step towards personal improvement.

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine

El Erian's Portfolio

World Beta - Engineering Targeted Returns and Risk: When Markets Collide

Six principles for a new regulatory order

FT.com / Columnists / Lawrence Summers - Six principles for a new regulatory order

Six principles for a new regulatory order

FT.com / Columnists / Lawrence Summers - Six principles for a new regulatory order

Ron Isana

There have been at least seven crisis since we began in the business in 1984: '87 crash, '90 Japan bubble, '94 Asian Crisis, '97 Russia and LTCM, '00 Tech bubble, '01 9/11, '07 Credit. I wonder why all the bears think that it is different this time. Why is it different: not just Wall Street, not just financial markets, and leadership is not as good.

I do not think that it is different this time. Leadership often only tends to look go in hindsight.

There will always be bubbles.

Economist's View: "A Time of Unexampled Prosperity"

Indefensible spending - No body is talking about this

Indefensible spending - Los Angeles Times

Al Gore

Al Gore spoke passionately and effectively about the state of the nation and global warming. Although he is a super delegate he feels that he has made the correct decision not to commit to either candidate. From his statements I would guess that he would like to support Obama but still has to remain loyal to Clinton.
Winning the election is vital. There must be a rollback of the unconstitutional and un American policies of this administration. Most important is to change the policy of torture.
Winning the post election politics will also be difficult. The right wing media and blogs will fight to keep the status quo. Concentration of corporate power is particularly noticeable in TV.
He is deeply involved in policy discussions, particularly involving energy. It was a bit disconcerting however that he used the quote that there 100 square miles of solar panels could supply US electrical demand, but did not have a guesstimate about the cost and how to build it.

Howard Dean says that the most effect thing that one can do to contribute to the campaign is to go door to door. Personal contact is most effective.

R-Squared Energy Blog: A Solar Thought Experiment

How many solar panels to produce all US electricity needs?
About 50 square miles.

R-Squared Energy Blog: A Solar Thought Experiment

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: Senator Obama Addresses Wesleyan University Graduates

It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential and discover the role you’ll play in writing the next great chapter in America’s story




Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: Senator Obama Addresses Wesleyan University Graduates

"Economics: Which Way for Obama?" (Behavioral Economics Edition)

naked capitalism: "Economics: Which Way for Obama?" (Behavioral Economics Edition)

Classics

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Oh, yeah, that should work

Business Advice

WallStreetJackass: Lauder Address at Wharton.

Peak Oil

The Big Picture | Crude Oil = $132; Peak Oil ?

Marginal Revolution: My favorite things Japan, cinema edition

Marginal Revolution: My favorite things Japan, cinema edition

So, you want things to be fair?

Greg Mankiw's Blog: So, you want things to be fair?

Did Larry Summers Concede to the "Forces of Darkness"?

Larry Summers defends his view that globalization can depress the wages of US workers and that the government should aid those workers.


Economist's View: Did Larry Summers Concede to the "Forces of Darkness"?

Allocating the benefits from trade

There are clear benefits to trade. The argument is all about how to allocate those benefits.

Economist's View: "The Canary in the Mine?"

Justification of Fund of Fund fees

allaboutalpha.com: AllAboutAlpha.com

New York Fed Chief Tim Geithner - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com

New York Fed Chief Tim Geithner - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com

On Inequality.

Sources of inequality.

Economist's View: "Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey"

Churchill on Democracy, Should we reconsider

Remind me again why democracy is better than any other form of government?

Obsidian Wings: They Read The Onion And Thought It Was A How-To Manual

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Rejecting the Policy that Won the Cold War

We need another "X".

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Rejecting the Policy that Won the Cold War

The U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing?

Everyone knows that we have a problem with new sources of energy. They are less aware about problems of storage and distribution.

The Oil Drum | The U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing?

Calculated Risk: BofA to Walk Away from Countrywide?

Calculated Risk: BofA to Walk Away from Countrywide?

Larry Summer's is Rethinking Globalisation"

By rethinking I mean thinking about how to deal with the sections of America that are the short term losers. Those areas need more investment in infrastructure, education and job retraining. But at the same time the people there need to understand that they are part of regional, national and global competition.

Economist's View: "A Strategy to Promote Healthy Globalisation"

What reforms are Needed?

Are we in the "eye of the storm" of the credit crisis?
What level of reforms of the system are needed: less leverage and more transparency.

naked capitalism: Why Such Timid Financial Reform Proposals? (Alan Blinder Edition)

McCain. More Dangerous than Bush

The Militarist | The American Prospect

Women on Wall Street

The end of Zoe Cruz

Hedge Funds | HedgeWorld | The Definitive Hedge Fund Community

The logical outcome of outsourcing

Oops! Chinese factory unintentionally made 'Free Tibet' flags | FP Passport

Peak Oil Simmons

Presentations by Matthew Simmons on Peak Oil.


Simmons

UBS - General Meetings of Shareholders

Or how to lose 37 billion.
See the Shareholders Report on UBS Write-Downs

UBS - General Meetings of Shareholders

No-effort portfolios - Investors Chronicle

The best way for individuals to invest.

No-effort portfolios - Investors Chronicle

naked capitalism: Buiter on the Failure of Financial Capitalism

Four steps to financial reregulation.

naked capitalism: Buiter on the Failure of Financial Capitalism

Commodity arbitrage

Physical delivery and commodities

Econbrowser: Commodity arbitrage

Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All - New York Times

Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All - New York Times

Euphemism and American Violence - The New York Review of Books

Euphemism and American Violence - The New York Review of Books

Bear/JPM Congressional Hearings: Post Mortems

When will OTC contracts be forced to the exchanges.


naked capitalism: Bear/JPM Congressional Hearings: Post Mortems

Economist's View: "Did Liberals Cause the Sub-Prime Crisis?"

CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) did not cause the subprime crisis.


Economist's View: "Did Liberals Cause the Sub-Prime Crisis?"

China in Africa: An Old Field with a New Player

Chinese investment is the right thing for Africa and will probably do more for development than Western aid.

Angry Bear: China in Africa: An Old Field with a New Player

What should be the new role for the Fed

Economist's View: Alan Greenspan: The Fed is Blameless

"Why Embrace Economic Change?"

Economist's View: "Why Embrace Economic Change?"

Export Growth in Asia

Cool graphical display of information.
This is the direction that presentations will take.

UUorld | Demo

Fed's Yellen: House Prices "still too high"

Delinquency rates are caused by high prices not high interest rates.

Calculated Risk: Fed's Yellen: House Prices "still too high"

Japan is not so bad after all

One reason why Tokyo does not feel so bad. Per capita GNP growth in Japan is stronger than US.

The Big Picture | Merrill Lynch: Per Capita Recession Began in Q4

Bloomberg.com: Finance

Half over?
Writedowns have reached 232 billion. Worst estimates are between 400 and 1 trillion. It is hard to believe that there is still that much more to come.

Bloomberg.com: Finance

The poverty trap | Free exchange | Economist.com

One look at why the poor stay poor.


The poverty trap | Free exchange | Economist.com

The Big Picture | Good Advice During Turbulent Times

The Big Picture | Good Advice During Turbulent Times

A Coordinated Effort to Destroy Effective Regulation"

The debate is just beginning. How much is deregulation responsible for the problems? What new regulations can mitigate existing issues? What is the correct level of regulation?


Economist's View: "A Coordinated Effort to Destroy Effective Regulation"

Context

Obsidian Wings: The Past

The Big Picture | Bear on eBay

The Big Picture | Bear on eBay

Iraq: Success or Failure?

Is there really a need to debate?

Suddenly I’m more outraged than ever § Unqualified Offerings

Japanese technical Analysis

The Big Picture | Candlesticks !

Cognitive Dissonance

Bear Stearns First Quarter Earnings Announcement Scheduled for March 17, 2008 Will Not Occur

What would you do?

Can we really expect to identify bubbles?

Economist's View: Alan Greenspan: Models of Risk

My next Car: BMW Hydrogen 7

Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in White Plains - New York Times

One Version of the end game

Economist's View: A Subprime Conversation

America and China

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal

Risk Management During Recent Financial Market Turbulence

What went wrong with risk management. The New York fed.


Economist's View: Risk Management During Recent Financial Market Turbulence

An hour and a half with Barack Obama

blog.pmarca.com: An hour and a half with Barack Obama

Where DID the money go?

Angry Bear: Reader Jack asks "Where DID the money go?"

We are not alone.

Reason Magazine - Why are People Having Fewer Kids?

Obama's Economists

The Audacity of Data

Why the Soviet Union Fell

Could this ever be the cause of the fall of capitalism? What if many people fail to believe in property rights and the rule of law?


Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal

Economist's View: "Mr. Kristol"

How have the regular folk done since 1980?

Economist's View: "Mr. Kristol"

Obama's Senate Record

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Economist's View: "From the New Deal, a Way Out of a Mess"

Alan Blinder suggests a way out of the forelclosure issue.

Economist's View: "From the New Deal, a Way Out of a Mess"

Country PEG ratios

Japan is not so cheap.

Bespoke Investment Group: Country PEG Ratios -- Russia, Singapore, Malaysia Top the List

I hope he does not do what he says he will do

I hope that Obama moderates his views.

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Obama on NAFTA

Science of Oil

The Oil Drum | Science 1101 Part 1: The Science of Oil and Peak Oil

Feeling Good today

Twelve reasons why you shouldn't.

Financial Armageddon: Still at the Forefront

East Asian Banks are net sellers of Treasuries in 2007

Does it matter for public policy if Brazil(?) and UK are the largest holders of our debt?

Angry Bear

The easiest way to balance the budget

No candidate talks about this.

Why the US has really gone broke, by Chalmers Johnson

Moody's A Primer on Subprime

Good except for the point in the first paragraph that damage is "contained."

moodys_september2007.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Roland Fryer

The New York Times > Magazine > Toward a Unified Theory of Black America

Marriage and the Market

Marriage has changed from being about specialization and production to being about consumption.
"Hedonic Marriage"
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Marriage and the Market

I find youlack of faith Disturbing

The MovieWavs Page - Star_Wars: faith.mp3

Putting things in perspective

The relative size of markets of financial assets. From the FT

Bloomberg debates whether to buy the presidency

The Borowitz Report .com

Following Father’s Footsteps, Davis Leads Drake Revival - New York Times

Making me feel old. I used to babysit for this kid.


Following Father’s Footsteps, Davis Leads Drake Revival - New York Times

Dani Rodrik's weblog: Trade and compensation

The question of what we should do about inequality is too important to be left to economists.


Dani Rodrik's weblog: Trade and compensation

Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Wall Street Write-Downs: Closing In on $100 Billion

What is the worst case scenario? 250 billion is the worst that I have heard. We might be only half way...

Deal Journal - WSJ.com : Wall Street Write-Downs: Closing In on $100 Billion

Characteristics of Various Policies as Short-Term Economic Stimulus

From the CBO
Characteristics of Various Policies as Short-Term Economic Stimulus

Reason to be Highly Optimistic about the Future

Economist's View: Alex Tabarrok: "Reason to be Highly Optimistic about the Future"

Do no Evil

On some of the ways Google is spending their money.

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Oh, and We Also Saved the World | PBS

Long-Term Benefits of Securitization

naked capitalism: Wolfgang Munchau Argues for the Long-Term Benefits of Securitization

Asset prices

Might Steve Roach finally be right this time?

naked capitalism: "America’s inflated asset prices must fall"

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Expert Coin Flippers

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Expert Coin Flippers

Economist's View: Have Polluting Industries Moved to Developing Countries?

Mark Thoma says that the reduction of pollution from manufacturing in the US comes 75% from technology and 25% from exporting polluting industries.

Economist's View: Have Polluting Industries Moved to Developing Countries?

Economist's View: Brad DeLong: Three Cures for Three Crises

The problem with forecasting for 2008 is that we do not know what the level of crisis is.


Economist's View: Brad DeLong: Three Cures for Three Crises