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Posted 3 hours ago
Earlier this week I wrote a piece describing the current capital market collapse as a cascading network failure of the information network that we call the capital market. The piece was based upon wor
Posted 14 hours ago
-doing a Fox Business hit at 7AM EST tomorrow (Monday) on now what? .Be there or be square. #-writing a piece for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp on the impact of raising cap gains taxes on st
Posted 22 hours ago
The chart below shows the amount of currency held by the public through last Friday. Can you detect a pattern? When people get scared, as they are now, they pull money out of the bank, out of money fu
Tags: currency
Posted 3 days ago
My friend Sonia Arrison, host of Digital Dialog and Senior Fellow of Technology Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, has written an article in TechNewsWorld, Network Theory Can Explain US Cr
Posted 4 days ago
Last summer, when US capital markets began to freeze up, total market capitalization was $19.1 trillion. US market cap at yesterday s close was $13.3 trillion, a drop of $5.8 trillion over 14 months
Posted 1 week ago
My friend Sonia Arrison, the technology wizard at Pacific Research Institute, asked me to give her my current thinking about how to analyze the current credit crunch as a cascading network failure, a
Posted 1 week ago
We have a winner. Our daughter s Blue Heron Inn has just been awarded a spot on Coastal Living Magazine s top 22 hotels and inns in America. And well deserved. Manda and her husband Chris have cr
Posted 1 week ago
There is one thing the government can do that would do a lot to restore confidence; raise the antiquated $100,000 limit on FDIC deposit insurance. It is not controversial. Congress won t meltdown wh
Posted 1 week ago
This morning I was riding in a taxi through the Beijing traffic on my way to Tsinghua University to host a Roundtable discussion with a dozen of China s leading economists and a host of graduate stu
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Through the miracle of modern communications technology, at 10AM this morning the Congressional Budget Office released the text of CBO Director Peter Orszag s statement, Federal Responses to Mark
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