I did a podcast last week, for those of you who cannot get enough of my dulcet nasal tones.
Note: I found the download was easier than the live play in terms of bandwidth.
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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March 2nd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Aww BR that nasal tone cheers me up cause I know its the straight skinny and no BS
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:04 pm
As I note the ongoing Ritholtz-fest of self-referential pieces in the recent past, and mindful of your observation about the NYT going “Media Crazy” last week [http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/03/nyt-goes-media-crazy/], it is with the humblest and purest of motives that I suggest you launch a new sidebar section, called “Me”.
(I’m trying hard not be snarky here, and I am, even as I type, downloading this 73-minute slug of your dulcet tones — so please don’t take offense, as none was intended)
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:10 pm
@constant: LOL! Great idea though.
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:13 pm
When I didn’t post the Yahoo Tech Ticker, people complained.
Now, we have had a spate of recent media, and so they all go up on the site (and people complain).
Hey, at least I didn’t link to this in today’s reads . . .
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:44 pm
It’s all in good fun, BR. Just busting your chops a bit. It’s all good.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Please keep the Video’s coming …
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:39 am
I second the others. Maybe someday when we emerge from the mess of moving I can even listen to these.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:12 am
Awesome interview. Russ Roberts is good on the issues with most things, but I had no idea how much he knew about the bailouts and the financial crisis. Most economists only have a bird’s-eye view of what happened — and so they miss a lot. Roberts didn’t miss much.
BR, I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but you scored huge points with the GMU crowd when you started talking about counterfactuals and how you can only point to the jobs “saved” by various bailouts, not the total long-term clusterfuck created in the process. They eat that stuff up.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:33 am
I’m just finishing listening to the podcast, and I really think it’s the best bit of audio (or video) that you’re done (at least that I’m aware of, and I’m a Ritholtz connoisseur). I’m trumpeting it out to all my peeps, as a “must listen” thing to somehow fit into their busy lives.
And I still think you should give consideration to aggregating these audio & video snippets of “prime Ritholtz” into a section on the site called “Me”. Or if you’re still wary of that name, you can inject a bit of humility by dropping the capitalization — “me”.