I’ve been hearing alot about Ayn Rand recently–Crackpot Adam Curry keeps trying to get Buzzkill to read Atlas Shrugged, while Chris Gondak has reviewed the Jessica Burns book “Goddess of the Market”, a biography of Ayn Rand. With two of my favorite podcasts mentioning her, I decided to do a bit more research. I found [...]
Posts Tagged ‘recession’
Ayn Rand is big again.
November 25, 2009Dow 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
Another sign of recessionary times
September 18, 2009A friend in South Korea forwarded me this article on a ship grave yard off the coast of Malaysia near Singapore. It’s a very prominent indicator of what the current recession is doing to global trade. Whether less goods shipping around the world is a good thing or a bad thing, I do know that these [...]
Engineering Unemployment
August 24, 2009Embedded guru Jack Ganssle has recently blogged about the current state of Electronics Engineering in the US, and it is not a pretty picture. It looks like EE’s survived the early recession but are now in a bit of trouble–a bit of a delayed reaction. Read his thoughts here. On another note, I have heard [...]
Predicting the future with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
November 28, 2008I’ve been trying to make sense of all this political turmoil, from a non-economist view point. I started looking at the Dow Jones over it’s entire history, and tried to see if statistics/charts could help try and determine the point we really should be at. Right now we are looking at the disappearance of imaginary [...]
