Month January 2008

Out of control

French president Nicolas Sarkozy on the recent financial crisis, including the SocGen rogue trader. “We must stop with this system that has gone haywire and that has lost track of its aim.” It appears to be time to… inject a…

Podcasts and plane flights

We just got back from a pleasant week in Tucson visiting Sue’s parents. Plane flights go much faster with an iPod, especially when it’s loaded with podcasts. Among my favorite podcasts: Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. The former MTV VJ…

Christian anarchy

Greg Boyd is the senior pastor of an evangelical megachurch. He also thinks the modern church has subverted the original message of Christianity, opposes Huckabee’s call to amend the Constitution, and defines himself as a Christian anarchist. It’s not appropriate…

What a bizarre financial week

What a week. A French bank discovers $7bn in losses due to a rogue trader and starts to unwind the trades. This tanks the European markets. The Fed, not knowing what happened, panics and does an emergency three quarter point…