"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
10 spicy bits of economic news: 1. Jobless claims rise unexpectedly. The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance climbed unexpectedly last week. There were 473,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Feb. 13, up 31,000…
We’ve “stopped falling off a cliff.” Oh, sure, sure. Now we’re bouncing down the scree: Housing starts unexpectedly slid 13 percent to an annual rate of 458,000, led by a 46 percent tumble in multifamily starts, which tend to be…
Clusterstock has thoughtfully assembled a list of the most bearish financial pundits, but really, they’re all a bunch of perkypants compared to Jim Kuntsler, except for Dimitry Orlov, who also basically predicts we’ll be living in caves and grubbing for…
Lawrence Summers: Positive economic news few months away (Sue has dubbed me Mr. Perkypants for my misguided optimism about the economy while she’s ok with her new moniker, Mrs. GloomyDoom)
(Note: Sue has dubbed me Mr. Perkypants over my optimism that the current financial crisis will lessen by 2010 – Bob) New trend … ghost ships. Housing keeps going down and is not anywhere near the bottom. Geithner plan will…