Economics

Zakaria: Capital Manifesto

Jun 14th, 2009 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Economics

Each crisis convinced observers that it signaled the end of some new, dangerous feature of the economic landscape. But often that novelty accelerated in the years that followed.



Early Indicator of Bull Market?

Mar 6th, 2009 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Economics

Has the market finally bottomed out?



Hot Off The Presses

Feb 13th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Economics

Get Your Stimzilla text here at this overwhelmed download site.



Stop Calling It An “Industry” Too

Dec 19th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Economics

Magically turning risky debt into a valuable asset by slicing and repackaging questionable mortgages into default-swap bond instruments is not “manufacturing” anything but fraud.



Bastards

Dec 12th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Economics

By the time we get to the heart of what ails us, our sick health care system, it will be too late. GM would have another $22 billion to play with if we worked under the same rules in every other civilized country.



If Krugman Is Scared…

Dec 5th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Economics

…then I’m terrified.



CHANGE Is Not Normal

Nov 22nd, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Economics, Energy

People just can’t handle too much turmoil in their lives, even when it saves them money. Just ask this nice lady I met at the gas station.



The Buffet Effect

Nov 6th, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: Economics

What truly made Obama’s election possible was a once-in-a-century economic crisis that was so severe that it created what some are calling “The Buffet Effect.”



Ohio Poll And Job Numbers

Oct 24th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Economics

Look folks, whatever the “experts” say, we’ve been in a recession for a year now, and we’ve got a year or two more of the same crap facing us.



I Thought So Too

Oct 11th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Economics

When you’re in essence dealing with pirates, their “code” is really no more than guidelines, to be broken, modified and made up as they go.