IL, CA, NY, NJ cds continue to rise
Forget again for a moment the European sovereign credit issues, the cost of credit protection for US municipalities Illinois, California,...
Chicago Fed: Best Days Behind Us?
The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index — one of my favorite measures — printed this morning. The monthly number...
‘All Hat, No Cattle’ Wall Street Reform
~~~ Source: ‘All Hat, No Cattle’ Wall Street Reform Imperiled by Sen. Byrd’s Death Aaron Task Yahoo Tech Ticker, June...
2010 World Cup Rankings
Terrific interactive data dump in the Sunday NYT, ranking various FIFA world cup teams by 10 separate metrics: FIFA world ranking Goals...
Word Origins: “Austerians”
Sometime over the past two weeks, the word “Austerians” burst onto the blogosphere. A play on the fiscal reserve of the...
Politician vs Market
In the Travel Channel show Man vs Food, a food eating contest pits Man vs a huge amount of food and/or something very spicy typically...
Are Home Prices Too High — or Too Low?
Several readers expressed surprise that I still believed home prices remain too high, as discussed in the A Closer Look at the Second Leg...
Bailout Tally (and Subsidization) Report
Bailout Tally Report Bailout Tally May 2010 ~~~ Bailout and Subsidization Type Report Sub 032010
Weekend Reads
I have a ton of work to get through today, but here are the readings that I found interesting . . . • Grading Financial Regulatory...
US Ranks Last in Health Care vs AUS, CAN, GER, NETH, NZ, UK
This continues to be fascinating: “The U.S. health system is the most expensive in the world, but comparative analyses consistently...