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As inflation falls to its lowest level since 1960 savers and borrowers to play "Let's Twist Again" as winners and losers in the money illusion swap places....

The people who are saying this stimulus bill will work are the same people who said there was no housing bubble. This stimulus legislation is an empty gesture/package. It’s too small to make a difference given the magnity/gravitude of the situation and the deficit left in its wake will only co...

The case for doing nothing (EAMON JAVERS & JIM VANDEHEI, 1/28/09, Politico) The Do-Nothing Crowd also points to some of the hidden upsides of the recession — developments they say are already helping position the U.S. economy for a recovery. The most noticeable impact is that housing prices are co...

Eric Jackson - who led the campaign to bring change to Yahoo - is looking for the next target.  He’s looking at notable blue chips that have taken a recent hit, namely: Citigroup, Apple, GE, and many others. Check out the list and vote for the company you think he should open a can of whoop a...

Can the Feds Uncrunch Credit? by Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Winter 2009 This is an excellent primer on understanding the so-called credit crunch, its cause and currently proposed cures. I plowed though it, and one thing kept bubbling up: The general pessimism of the author as to whether, over the ...

Several people sent me this link about what is at stake with the United States running $1 trillion deficits. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has also said the U.S. budget deficit will swell to a record $1.186 trillion in fiscal-year 2009 and come in at $703 billion in the 2010 fiscal ye...

This is the 2nd in a series of seminars on the impending collapse of the US economy. Bill Young, The Maverick Money Man, is an experienced real estate investor who saw and warned against the damage the sub prime mortgage mess would produce. This was in 2005! (http://HouseCollapse.Blogspot.com) Bill'...

Many commentators are discussing the prospect of the worst possible case in the current economic down-spiral. Hard times for all That case is deflation, where the relative value of our debts rises while the price of our assets fall. In a period of low indebtedness in the early 1930s, America’s...

Just what you've suspected. Math and computer science professors Mark Schilling and Len Adelman (that's THE Adelman, the 'A' in RSA), analyze the various tracking polls from March through this week, and lay out their systematic bias. An overview here......