Month November 2007

Dialogue on the Wall

Subtopia interviews Jay Isenberg about his art installation, Dialogue on the Wall, which is about the Israeli Security Wall. He installed his own portion of the Israeli Security Wall in the Form + Content gallery using the barrier as a…

$100 a barrel oil

Yes, peak oil is happening. But there’s more to $100 a barrel oil than that. Stock and option trader Phil Davis explains in a post on Sept 18 how oil prices are deliberately manipulated by the futures market traders (he…

Respect, SWP, and the shambles

Respect, the primary Left party in Britain has fractured. Socialist Workers Party organized a coup and jacked the party apparatus. So, the non-SWP members of Respect, including Member of Parliament George Galloway, will be holding a Respect Renewal conference on…

CMBX?

Yes. CMBX. As in Commercial Mortgage Backed Credit Default Swaps. They’re currently going south big time, signaling that commercial real estate itself is in trouble. Wait, wasn’t subprime residential real estate just supposed to be a little blip and not…