The Different Kind of Car Company never had a shot given its hereditary defects. Godspeed Saturn. Source: Cagle.com
October 2009
Hot Links: Deflation, Brazil & Too-Big-To-Fail Whales
More Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Pay Attention: Joseph Stiglitz and others see deflation and Bernanke keeping rates down to fight it. (Bloomberg) Mortgages for sports stadium season tickets…why not, at this point? (MarketFolly) “An Unmitigated Disaster” – Denninger on the real unemployment numbers. (MarketTicker) A look at Brazilian stocks after the Olympic bid victory…
Top 10 Job Openings for October
Having wiped this week’s excremental non-farm payroll data from our hair and car windshields, I would say it’s time we began to focus on which sectors and industries are actually hiring. In a highly unscientific study, I’ve come up with what I believe to be the Top 10 Job Openings for October 2009: 10. Virtually…
Stimulus Was Meaningless For Jobs
The good professor has brought back an old chart that Obama’s econ team used to justify the stimulus package earlier this year and annotated it (in red) to illustrate how far the reality deviated from the projections. From Greg Mankiw’s Blog: When the Obama stimulus plan was proposed, the president’s economic team put out a…
China: We Drink Your Milkshake
China’s still at it. Attempting to suck up every ounce of crude oil on a global basis, they are not unlike the Daniel Plainview character from There Will Be Blood, an oil magnate to whom you either leased your land or you watched as he drained the oil from it horizontally, right out from under…
Hot Links: Madoff Madness & the King of the Pipelines
Hot Links for Weekend Reading… Trouble coming for the rest of the Madoffs, $199 million worth. (USAToday) Speaking of Madoff, here’s regulatory reform expert Bill Singer on the continuing deficiency of oversight. (BrokeAndBroker) All hail REX, the King of Pipelines – bringing stimulus to a town near you. (WSJ) NYU: “What Recession?” (NYP) The death…
Media: Talking Bonuses on France 2 TV
Here’s a little something I did for mes amis at France 2 Television about the banker bonus issue during the G-20 Summit. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rev_X_q_m-0] Bonne fin de semaine!
YOU ARE NOT READY
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZxBYItj2sM&feature=player_embedded] If today’s jobs report has you in the apocalyptic mood, allow me to put a visual to your state of mind. The footage above is from the upcoming film 2012. The effects in this preview may be the best I’ve ever seen as far as disaster flicks go. I predict that this will be…
About Those Dow 10,000 Predictions…
Remember, oh…I don’t know…a week ago, when everyone talked about Dow 10,000 like it was a foregone conclusion? Not so fast!
Forbes 400 Movers and Groovers
The 2009 Forbes 400 list just came out and I found myself more interested in the rankings than I’ve been in awhile. Overall, the big guys lost money for only the 5th time since 1982. Their losses were a combined $300 billion in net worth. From Forbes: Faltering capital markets and real estate prices, along…