In addition to everything else he does — Bloomberg Surveillance, Bloomberg on the Economy, etc — Tom Keene is now blogging under the BusinessWeek banner.
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Apparently, with Howard Stern on XM Sirius, Keene is now the King of All Media . . .
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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August 31st, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Tom’s a real renaissance man — I remember when he served as governor of New Jersey a while back. His voice seems to have deteriorated a bit since then, though.
August 31st, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Didn’t that Keene do a real bang-up job on the 9-11 Commission?!…After all that sturm and drang left out completely any analysis of the miracle free-fall collapse of WTC 7. The easy answer was that he is more politician than physicist or engineer. Maybe it is only the ghosts I still feel are still there asking?
August 31st, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Tom’s a whiz on markets, but gravitational physics may have lain outside his comfort zone.
September 1st, 2010 at 9:02 pm
I still think the brain drain from Science for Fame and Glory big time to data-sniffing Financial Engineers for Money and aMorals was a mighty loss indeed. Vietnam ate the money in the 60′s then Reagen in the 80′s gave it to the FinWhizes after the crude oil monster escaped into the wild in the 70′s and took Gold with it.