Last night CNBC premiered "The Bubble Decade" with host David Faber looking back at the three boom-and-bust episodes of the past 10 years--tech, real estate and private equity. It will replay Sunday and no doubt many more times in the coming weeks and months.
Leaving aside the analysis at [...]
After 36 hours of strong winds, we're ready for calmer weather. The cold we can take--the wind was pretty brutal. Friday will be cold with lots of sun and gradually diminishing winds. Temperatures tonight will very cold with light winds. Skies will become cloudy Saturday with moderating temperatures. Precipitation will [...]
Paul Krugman has sunk to a subterranean depth of pettiness in his New York Times post calling Austrians The new Larouchies:
Hmm. I'm fairly accustomed to having speaking events disrupted by Larouchies (when I was in Cambridge a while back we had a guy yelling about banana fungus, among other' [...]
TODAY'S criticism of the Fed has been outsourced to Stephen Colbert:
His complaints are funnier than mine.
[...]This is an intriguing forecast out of TransUnion in the FT:
“The proportion of US borrowers who have slipped behind on mortgage payments will fall in 2010 for the first time since the financial turmoil began in a sign that the nation’s housing crisis is abating, the credit bureau TransUnion [...]
I reckon it must be quite tough at the moment to be an analyst or a money mover/manager. This is not only because of difficult markets and a very opaque economic outlook, but more so because as we move into year's end we are flooded by a veritable tsunami of' [...]
SUNDAY'S New York Times featured a Jared Diamond piece on the potential for business to be green, that is, to do more [...]
GoodGuide, a consumer group, claims to have found dangerous levels of antimony, a metalloid toxic to humans in in large amounts, in a study. GoodGuide found higher-than-normal levels of antimony on the hair and nose of the Mr. Squiggles Zhu Zhu pet. The Baltimore Sun has [...]
In a recent edition of Health Affairs, health economist Tsung-Mei Cheng interviews Taiwan’s Health Minister Ching-Chuan Yeh, M.D. They discuss Taiwan’s adoption of a national health insurance (NHI) system in 1995. Below are some highlights from the interview.
Health spending as a share of GDP was 4.79% in 1993 (prior [...]Earlier today we posted a story from the Real Estate Wonk (Jamie Smith Hopkins of the Baltimore Sun) of one couple and their unsuccessful attempts at buying a home in today’s unique real estate market. The couple, Peter and Karen, saw all types of properties, everything from foreclosures, to [...]
It is Sunday, at least according to one study conducted in Germany, by Swedes. Could it be because there is much less to buy? Because the cities empty out? Because walking in nature is overrated? Because you are supposed to go to church or are supposed to spend more time [...]
This mornings must read work is an article in the Sunday Washington Post by none other than Ben Bernanke, titled The right reform for the Fed.
It is a rational pushback against the like of Ron Paul and Chris Dodd’s programs to either hamstring or completely get rid of the [...]
Reading this editorial in today’s Baltimore Sun makes me realize that the world is full of people who believe in square circles, mighty hurricanes whose strongest winds are but gentle breezes, and (of course) cats that bark. I sent this letter in response:
You are right to decry the increasing [...]
Many thanks to Brad Miller, one of the co-sponsors of the Miller-Moore amendment, who has been doing the rounds of the blogs trying to explain what it does and doesn't do. He left a comment on my blog on Sunday, and another on Yves Smith's today; I' [...]
Economist Tsung-Mei Cheng has developed three Universal Laws of Health Care Systems. These are:
No matter how good the health care in a particular country, people will complain about it. No matter how much money is spent on health care, the doctors and hospitals will argue it is not enough. The last reform always failed.Source: [...]
”Jag har hela tiden hävdat att jag anser mig ha en majoritet av invånarna med mig", förklarade Vellinges Lars-Ingvar Ljungman (M) när han ville stoppa boendet för ensamkommande flyktingbarn.
Nu visar en opinionsundersökning beställd av Sydsvenskan att han bara har 18% av Vellingeborna med sig. 63% tycker att boendet [...]
[...] U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action...
French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said it was clear the main obstacle was the United States' [...]
|Peter Boettke|
Today is Sunday in the Fall, and in the US that means professional football from noon until midnight will be watched in millions of households across the country. And in the fall throughout the country one can watch HS football on Friday nights, and college football on Saturdays. So [...]
