Archive for July 23rd, 2008

23Jul

Fannie and Freddie

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

What is going on right now with regard to the Federal government and the credit industry represents possibly the single greatest realignment of the role of government in private sector finance since the Great Depression. I, for one, am terrified of what Congress is doing and what they aren’t doing. You won’t hear this story [...]

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23Jul

Zimbabwe “Money”

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

I just bought one of these on eBay, and whenever someone asks me about it I’m going to say “100 billion dollars” in a Dr. Evil voice.

For all the talk about the lowly light bulb being a primary front in the ongoing journey to becoming green, the fact is that there are few good options to replace the incandescent when it comes to light quality, cost, and environmental impact. I have a few CFLs in the Nolan household but I simply [...]

Gets you what? $19 billion is the market capitalization of 10 of the major U.S. newspaper stocks. Put another way, about 1/8th the value of Google. To be clear, this is not the valuation of the top 10 newspaper companies because Hearst, Tribune, Cox are private and Dow Jones is part of behemoth News Corp, [...]


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