Monthly Archives: March 2011

I’ll be somewhat off the grind for the next few weeks. Here’s some links I’d recommend in the meantime: – Aaron Bady on both Libya and talking about Libya. The first part, about the work commenting and having an opinion … Continue reading →

Bunch of stuff on 2nd and junior liens, things we watch closely here. - Alex Ulam has a piece for The Nation on second liens that is worth checking out. – Lots of reports on the performance of junior-liens with distress … Continue reading →

I think we need to move the debate forward on the financial industry, specifically its relationship to other sectors and the draw it has for our most talented people. The Kauffman Foundation has a new report out by Paul Kedrosky … Continue reading →

This: As Economy Sputters, a Timid Fed. It’s clear which way the Fed has erred recently. It has done too little. It stopped trying to bring down long-term interest rates early last year under the wishful assumption that a recovery … Continue reading →

There’s a game of chicken going on with the budget and whether or not the government will shut down. I think everyone has written a lot about the need to expand the short-term deficit in terms of government spending and … Continue reading →

Hey! Even I was tricked by the three-card monte of the recent GOP/AEI research on growth-through-austerity, and I’m trying to watch the red Ace very closely as these conservatives spin the cards around. Where I thought they were actually putting … Continue reading →

Recently, an edited-into-”gotcha!” series of comments made by Stephen Lerner about how underwater homeowners need to put political pressure on the largest banks was been picked up by Glenn Beck who called it economic terrorism. It struck me as pretty standard … Continue reading →

Some recent stories on increasing legal and economic pressures being put on struggling homeowners. We’ll need these for the next entry. - Joe Nocera has a must-read article about how the IRS put a huge investigation into a single borrower and ended … Continue reading →

In your head, in your heeeaaaadddd…. (Side note:  Would you pay to see a Cranberries cover band? There’s one, Ocean Spray, that occasionally plays in the Mission/Bernal Heights area of San Francisco. I really want to see them; if you see the … Continue reading →

I actually forgot one of the most important point about the growth-through-austerity mousetrap game. My cousin’s mousetrap board game was broken, so it was always disappointing to get it set up and have it randomly breakdown halfway through the game. … Continue reading →