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Apr 24 09 9:47am EDT

Introducing the New Ford Squeeze

The most fascinating thing to me about the coverage of the fate of Chrysler and General Motors is the extent to which the language has changed since earlier this year and late last year. In 2008, the automakers were all ... Continue


Apr 24 09 9:12am EDT

Non-Economic Questions of the Day

So let me get this straight -- Dick Cheney is the remarkably unpopular former vice-president who led his party to an epic electoral defeat and who has now been revealed as someone who unequivocally supported the use of torture to ... Continue


Apr 24 09 8:36am EDT

The Stress Test Blind Alley

Today, the government will begin discussing the results of its stress tests with heads of the nation's 19 larger banks in meetings in Washington and will release the methodology of the tests to the public. Then, of course, we'll all ... Continue


Apr 23 09 9:40pm EDT

Happy Hour

Assuming we're still in the recession, what are the odds that the peak in the four-week moving average of initial unemployment claims represents the peak for the downturn as a whole? Just 37%, says Jim Hamilton. "Well, working on Wall ... Continue


Apr 23 09 6:13pm EDT

Recovery Without Rebalancing

The Economist has a long hard look at the glimmers of green shoots of hope we've all been discussing, and comes away a bit skeptical. The problem is this: government policy will probably put an end to the decline in ... Continue


Apr 23 09 5:11pm EDT

The Shape of Your Recession

David Wessel uses his column today to outline potential shapes of the recession and recovery. There's V and L (sharp recovery and no recovery, respectively), and then D, which isn't a shape but instead stands for Depression. Why not just ... Continue


Apr 23 09 3:26pm EDT

The Ideas of Simon Johnson

As a sage and star of the ongoing economic crisis, Simon Johnson has risen in stature impossibly fast. His rising stock spiked with the recent publication of a piece in the Atlantic, describing his view of America as a nation ... Continue


Apr 23 09 2:50pm EDT

Newspaper Economics: Behind in the Count

Henry Blodget links to this story outlining the latest in dire news for the newspaper business -- the New York Times Company may be worthless:"Net debt to (operating profit) is way too high," Barclays analyst Craig Huber said in a ... Continue


Apr 23 09 12:54pm EDT

Risk Reversion

Felix is preparing to give a speech to some bond dealers, and he's been kind enough to post his notes to his blog. Here's a bit I like:I believed along with Alan Greenspan that when it comes to debt instruments ... Continue


Apr 23 09 11:55am EDT

The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

Via Paul Kedrosky, this is a nice piece on traffic by Jonah Lehrer:A few years ago, the Swiss economists Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer announced the discovery of a new human foible, which they called "the commuters paradox". They found ... Continue


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