Targeted advertising
From a Silicon Valley Insider post about the effect of the stock market crash on online advertising.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Credit crisis
Foreclosures soar despite government programs
2,800 homes a day were lost to foreclosure during July-Sept 2008, up from 1,200 a day in the previous year. Yikes. One bright spot: The BofA / Countrywide settlement takes effect Dec. 1 and 400,000 homeowners will get much lower…
Europe on brink of currency crisis meltdown
From the Telegraph (UK) “This is the biggest currency crisis the world has ever seen,” said Neil Mellor, a strategist at Bank of New York Mellon. The latest data from the Bank for International Settlements shows that Western European banks…
World markets crater. US markets not panicked
Weird. Asia and Europe markets got clobbered last night. Many investors were expecting US markets to do the same, but so far they are holding steady, down 4-5%, but not down 9.6% like the Nikkei was. Strange days when being…
Unsettling anomalies in the markets
(That’s the Department of Treasury seal on the boat.) Weird scenes inside the gold mine today, both in treasuries and in the stock market Treasury securities at “historic levels of fail” Work with me here. This is not intuitively obvious.…