Month July 2008

The Freedom People. New Revolution

The Freedom People, Brad and Periel Stanfield, have tirelessly played at many antiwar demonstrations. I got to know them when I lived in L.A., they’re good people. This is the final version of their great “New Revolution.”

Banking crisis will be much worse

This is the new Much Worse. As contrasted with previous upward revisions in the amount of money that banks will be losing, which were a mere $400 billion or so, the new number is $1.6 trillion. This from a “confidential…

Garmin 760 GPS

I’ve been using the Garmin 760 GPS the past few days and will be getting one. The interface is intuitive and easy to use. It has a large database of stores, restaurants, etc. and a “Where Am I” feature so…

The party’s over

From Alan Abelson’s weekly column in Barron’s It increasingly looks “like the evermore freewheeling financial environment that we’ve taken for granted for the last 25 years is behind us.” Or, as the [Bank for International Settlements] declaims “has run its…