Just looking through a few blogs that I haven’t in a while and found this particular blog post from Loring Wirbel to be quite good. It’s a real look at the problems that President Obama (and the American public) will face in the next little while, and why the it will be very hard to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘economics’
It ain’t Camelot.
November 16, 2009Goldman Sachs and the housing collapse
November 3, 2009John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry of No Agenda certainly have it in for Goldman Sachs. Whether it is micro-trading, or their ability to place ex-employees in high levels of government, there is a lot of suspicion around the company. Now they have found something more to bash them about. Check out Dvorak’s blog for [...]
Bill Clinton and healthcare reform
October 28, 2009I had the good fortune of attending the AdvaMed 2009 conference from October 12th to the 14th, and one of the plenary speakers happened to be Bill Clinton. I was quite intrigued to hear him speak. I know these former presidents usually command a pretty penny to hear them talk, but I was skeptical whether [...]
Dow tops 10,000
October 24, 2009I know this blog post is a bit late. I’ve been busy transitioning between two jobs in the greater organization, and also had a trip to Washington DC last week. My time has been full, but enough with excuses. I certainly noticed when the DJIA got over the psychologically significant 10,000 mark on the 14th. [...]
Have we learned nothing from our southern neighbours?
October 6, 2009I keep hearing these rumours about house prices going up again in Canada. It seems that these low interest rates along with comments that the “recession is over” have boosted confidence with home buyers again. 30, 35 and 40 year mortgages are still being offered to potential buyers up here. Have we learned nothing from [...]
And another blog post with some historical views.
October 4, 2009I found this blog post (and the comments) from Edward Harrison on Seeking Alpha quite illuminating. Although I do think the US has already printed too much money–too much debt from the Bush years–and may have to pay severely for it before they can think of printing much more. Canada seems to be in a [...]
Some not so good job-loss numbers…
October 4, 2009… from the NY Times. American corporations seem to be in a wait and see mode while everything gets figured out. See the chart here. Also a story on Canada.com with a look at the overall effect to both Canada and the US. Story here. BTW, I do promise to put some good stats up [...]
Ain’t out of the recession yet…
October 2, 2009A view on the current state of the recession in the US from John C Dvorak’s blog: http://dvorak.org/blog
What’s old is new again
June 4, 2009As this recession continues (except for the short rally on Wall Street), people will be starting to preserve the items they have, and look to buy used goods at discount prices. In fact, a new consignment shop just opened down the street from me. I can’t help but wonder if this mentality will be good for [...]
Production vs. Maintenance
May 28, 2009I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this, especially as we are seeing many manufacturing facilities lower production all over the world. Maybe we are getting too good at mass producing things, and therefore using too many of the Earth’s resources. Wouldn’t trying to maintain the items we have be more efficient in some [...]
