August 4, 2007

Falling Markets, Bursting Bubbles

As you consider stories like this one from today's NYT on the growing fears of the potential economic problems caused by a credit crunch, keep... [More]

Stupid Studies

I'm sure everyone is going to be talking about this, because if taken at face value, it would seem to have enormous importance. NEW YORK... [More]

August 9, 2007

Copyright Protection for Fashion

Bipartisanship in DC may have mostly gone the way of the dodo, but its good to know its still allive and well in at least... [More]

August 16, 2007

Politics v. Economics

Andrew Sullivan, writing about the push towards universal health care: The market enforces these limits by its usual brutal mechanism - price. A socialized system... [More]

More Mortgage Market Madness

Countrywide Financial is the nation's largest mortgage. How large?, They made one out of every five loans in the first half of this year, and... [More]

More Mortgage Market Madness II

From Consumerist, the best explanation I've yet seen on why this whole mess is so damn scary: It's easier to understand the subprime mortgage meltdown... [More]

August 17, 2007

More Mortgage Market Madness III

ThinkProgress made quite the catch with this one. At the end of a long CNBC report detailing Countrywide's problems, the network went straight in to... [More]