The fractious news media cackle over the Occupy movement's motives and the hygiene of its participants continues to raise the ire of astute internet citizens ...
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In which Larry Summers speaks remarkably candidly about the problem of regulatory capture. You can almost see the words Timothy Geithner on his lips. ...
The Hill is reporting that Speaker Boehner is preparing to demand further budget cuts as a requirement to raising the debt ceiling for the US ...
The Washington Post and the New York Times have separately produced two new articles regarding the forensic reconstruction of the Fuskushima Daiichi accident by different ...
I found these two interesting graphics on the website of Germany’s Federal Office for Radiation Protection. The first graph shows the concentration of airborne Iodine-131 at ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health has published radiation monitoring data for the city of Tokyo (air distance of approximately 150 mi. from the ...
Data from the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization's (CTBTO) monitoring stations are beginning to accumulate sufficiently to estimate the quantity and type of radionucleotide release ...
The mainstream media coverage of the unfolding nuclear disaster at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been disappointing to say the least. From ...
An apropos follow-up to GQ's story The Day The Movies Died, Chris Dodd has become chairman and CEO of Hollywood's lobbying arm, the MPAA. Chris Dodd ...
More grave news from the Middle East region, including reports that a Saudi protest organizer, Faisal Ahmed Abdul-Ahadwas, has been killed by government forces. ...
"If movies were now seen as packages, then the new kings of the business would be marketers, who could make the wrapping on ...
This great little graph from CR shows where all that apparent 'wealth' of the last decade came from.. mortgage equity withdraw.
Now I actually like Sheila Bair better than just about anyone else at the Treasury, FED and FDIC combined, but the talking points on this ...
Time machine posts come from my cache of articles related to the Great Unwind, and are pretty fascinating look back at where we've been during ...
Via WallStreetWatch.org: The financial sector invested more than $5 billion in political influence purchasing in Washington over the past decade, with as many as 3,000 lobbyists ...
Decent summary of the major pieces of the credit crunch. Unfortunately, not much mention of ratings agencies, monoline insurers, ABS complexity or macro-level monetary theory, ...
In a sign of what may be the future for more than one former Eastern Block nation, Latvia has defaulted after a week of rumors ...
The meme that Social Security is bankrupting the United States is beginning to rear its ugly head again as those opposed to entitlement programs are ...
Joseph Stieglitz to World Economic Forum in Davos: Any decision by President Obama to establish a 'bad bank' to buy up toxic assets would amount ...
Sad news today as Tanta, of Calculated Risk fame, has passed on. We have lost one of the best and brightest voices in the wilderness, ...
As the crisis in the US deepens, we hear frighteningly little analysis of the geopolitical fallout of credit destruction. Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith reminds ...
Please check out this video compilation of Peter Schiff predicting the severe credit crunch consequences as we are now beginning to feel in the real ...
Does anyone else find this shameful? In a speech this morning, Paulson laid out his priorities for some $350 billion of the bailout fund that remains ...
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