September 12, 2008
From Charlie Rose last night, here are Robert Rubin and Larry Summers talking the current financial crisis. Definitely worth watching. As an aside, why is it that Charlie Rose is one of the few in mainstream media taking this story...
Oodles of good stuff at The Oil Drum on Hurricane Ike's impact on oil and gas infrastructure as it makes landfall near Galveston TX. Definitely check it out....
ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" show will have Alan Greenspan this Sunday morning. Here is the blurb: Then, in another EXCLUSIVE interview, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan shares his thoughts on the state of the U.S. economy and...
To indulge my sports science geekishness for a moment, there is some great analysis out from my friends at The Science of Sport of yesterday's claim that Usain Bolt could have run a 9.55s 100m in Beijing if he had...
The party line inside the Bush Administration about the current financial crisis seems to be that it's not as bad as the S&L Crisis was. Check the following transcript of a press conference this morning with his economic policy minions:...
Some quick links to things others may find interesting: Michael Lewis on Lehman: A good example of people finally learning not to buy what i-bankers are selling (Bloomberg) Global equity trading falls 37% so far this year, and 78% (!!)...
I have had to explain the following to myriad people in recent days, so I might as well put it here. Q: If we can bail out Bear Stearns/Lehman/Fannie/Freddie/whatever, there is no way we can say no to bailing out...
