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  • Building Boring Nationalized Companies [View article]
    You're back just in time to write the 200th or so article on SA commenting on Buffett's recent purchase.
    Nov 05 11:35 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • How Long Can Public Pensions Continue? [View article]
    On another hand, Oregon public agencies, including the pension fund PERS, have been betting bond money on the markets: www.statesmanjournal.c...
    Nov 04 22:22 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Richmond Fed: GSEs Encourage Mortgage Defaults [View article]
    Link to Fed paper www.richmondfed.org/pu...
    Nov 03 16:44 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Richmond Fed: GSEs Encourage Mortgage Defaults [View article]
    The double negatives are in the prevailing academic style, which is "not without" adherents.
    Nov 03 15:06 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Real Problem with ETNs: The Spreads [View article]
    Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
    Oct 30 10:40 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Whose Face Should Grace the $1 Million Bill? [View article]
    To represent the US tax-payer/consumer, I nominate Alfred E. Neuman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with his motto "What, me worry?"
    Oct 26 11:14 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Chamber of Commerce Has It Backwards [View article]
    It's time for the president to take his eye off the 2010 and 2012 elections and do what's right for the country. Lincoln would have.
    Oct 15 21:49 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • Regarding Osinski, Toxic Assets, and Felix Salmon [View article]
    So why did you submit the article - to prove you're smarter than the rest of us?
    Oct 15 21:32 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Naked-Shorting Datapoint of the Day, Carl Icahn Edition [View article]
    Unless he's too big to fail.


    On Oct 14 05:02 PM Tom Armistead wrote:

    > He who sells what is not his'n,
    > Must buy it back, or go to prison.
    Oct 14 20:32 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Bank Lending Channel's Role in the Recession  [View article]
    Is the message here that we might channel credit to businesses which relied on credit cards and home equity loans for funding? Sounds like sand down a rat hole to me.
    Oct 13 14:41 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Political Will for Reform and the Concept of Corporate Communism [View article]
    Willem Buiter blogs.ft.com/maverecon.../ echoes Ratigan's theme with "...turn our financial sector back into something that belongs in and sustains a market economy instead of a form of communism for the rich and well-connected."
    Oct 08 13:42 pm |Rating: +7 0 |Link to Comment
  • Krugman Puzzled by Housing Asymmetry [View article]
    Quite right, po folks: Krugman is thinking out loud and allowing others to comment, a technique also used by DeLong and Salmon. Anyone wanting in on the action should follow the links back.

    One the other hand, Falkenstein has clipped, pasted and taken a shot at his better.
    Oct 06 11:10 am |Rating: +1 -3 |Link to Comment
  • Why Capital Regulations Didn't Cause the Mortgage Crisis [View article]
    Mortgages were low risk back when responsible firms and their employees verified incomes etc. on applications. On the other hand, rating agents may have always been whores.
    Sep 30 21:06 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Walgreen Co. Takes Care of Business [View article]
    "Walgreens benefited from its strategy of focusing on essentials and sprucing up stores by reducing clutter...."
    Reminds me that I bought a garden hose at Rite Aide a few years ago and junked it before long. Fool me once....
    Sep 29 22:47 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Fisking Scientific American on Peak Oil [View article]
    Link "article" here leads only to summary. Try www.scientificamerican...
    At the end of article you'll see: "ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
    Leonardo Maugeri is an economist and senior executive vice president of the Italian oil company Eni. He is a visiting scholar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of M.I.T.'s External Energy Advisory Board. In 2007 his book The Age of Oil received the U.S. Choice Award. His new book, Beyond the Age of Oil: The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives, will be published in early 2010 by Praeger."
    In my opinion he is not a tribute to the judgement of MIT.
    Sep 27 09:56 am |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment
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