Day December 10, 2007

Your unsettling financial thought for the day

The publicized and photographed overnight “runs” on Countrywide and the UK’s Northern Rock in mid-August were nothing compared to what’s taking place in the shadows of the real banking system. Credit contraction, with its inevitable companion of asset destruction, is…

The good news is…

We’ll be having five days in a row of precipitation, which will certainly help bring an end to the “moderate drought” here in Connecticut. The bad news is much of the precipitation will be freezing rain and sleet, which makes…

My first iPod

Not sure why it took me so long, considering my love of music and tech, but I just got my first iPod, an 8 GB Nano. Ok, I truly get it now about Apple. Using iTunes to load the iPod…