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New York Times Fawns Over Erin Burnett (The Big Picture)

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:18:41 GMT

I've found Erin Burnett to be a delightful addition on CNBC -- she gets the full NYT rising star treatment in the Sunday Business section: ONLY days into a new job at CNBC two and a half years ago, Erin Burnett was settling into orientation when the network decided to put her on camera. Viewers and executives of the cable business channel took note, and within weeks, Ms. Burnett started her first...

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"'Means Testing, for Medicare" (Economist's View)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:07:00 GMT

Tyler Cowen: Means Testing, for Medicare, by Tyler Cowen, Economic View, NY Times: Right now, ... pressing problems may lie ahead — and the presidential candidates aren’t addressing them. No matter who sits in the Oval Office next year, there...

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Rescue Plan! (The Big Picture)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Another great cartoon:

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"Iraq Leader Maliki Supports Obama's Withdrawal Plans" (Economist's View)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:09:00 GMT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki doesn't say so directly, well not quite, but he makes it clear that he thinks Barack Obama's plans for Iraq are superior to John McCain's: Iraq Leader Maliki Supports Obama's Withdrawal Plans, Speigel: Iraqi Prime...

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Its Unanimous: Banks Have Bottomed! (The Big Picture)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:12:14 GMT

Very strange confluence of media coverage this morning on the banking sector. All three major financial papers (WSJ, NYT, Barron's) have stories on the bottom banking sector: WSJ: Jitters Ease as Citi, Rivals Show Signs of Bottoming Out NYT: Hope, and Hints, That Financial Stocks Have Finally Touched Bottom Barron's: Buy Banks -Selectively (cover story) Can you recall the last time 3 major media players...

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Legg Mason To Back Yahoo!, Icahn Bid Is Dead (24/7 Wall St.)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:44:36 GMT

Carl Icahn never really made much of a case for what he would do if he could not sell all or part of Yahoo! (YHOO) to Microsoft (MSFT). He wanted Yahoo!... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Moral Hazard & Risky Precedents (The Big Picture)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT

Excellent discussion from PBS News Hour, on Moral Hazard: click for video > > Sources: Bailout of Mortgage Firms Could Set Risky Precedent (Transcript) July 18, 2008 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/bailouthazard_07-18.html Audio Recording http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2008/07/18/20080718_risky28.mp3

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Apple (AAPL): A Hard Ride Ahead (24/7 Wall St.)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:26:25 GMT

All the news from Apple (AAPL) is good. Recent Gartner and IDC data show the Mac outselling PC products from Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ). The iPhone sold one... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Gramm Gone (The Big Picture)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:30:00 GMT

Smartest thing the McCain has done in 6 months: Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm resigned Friday from his role as Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign co-chairman, hoping to quiet the uproar that followed his comments that Americans had become a "nation of whiners" whose constant complaints about the U.S. economy show they are in a "mental recession." -McCain adviser Gramm leaves campaign...

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Friday Finance Findings for July 18th (Génération X Finance)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:09:32 GMT

It’s the middle of July, and the dog days of summer are here (well, where I live anyway). It has been a hot and humid week with temperatures over 90 during the day, and not even falling below 70 at night. It’s not that big of a deal except that my home office is on [...]

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Traffic Peaked Again Near Short Term Bottom (The Big Picture)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:30:00 GMT

A reader writes: "You have mentioned blog traffic spiking near bottoms. How'd that work out this week?" Answer: Pretty good... Below is the past 30 days traffic, with Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday circled in blue; Average volume is blue line. > > Previously: Traffic Spike? (January 2008) http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/01/traffic-spike.html Blog Traffic as a Contrary Market Indicator (February...

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Tim Duy: Not So Bad? (Economist's View)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:26:00 GMT

Tim Duy gives and answer to Brad DeLong's question: Not So Bad', by Tim Duy: Brad DeLong is puzzled. Earlier this week, defending Greenspan-era monetary policy, Now we are not yet out of the woods. If the tide of financial...

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Household Visitors (The Big Picture)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:30:00 GMT

Uh-oh, looks whose invited themselves over to stay for a while . . . Tom Toles via Yahoo!

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52-Week Low Club (AYE, AXL, APL, AUO, CHB, CMLS, GAP, MAC, MIR, RRI, SGLP, SWY, VRTU) (24/7 Wall St.)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:29:00 GMT

Its Friday, and despite a fairly stable market today there were of course many 52-week lows. Some look like a mid-city explosion from news, and some are just... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Will Apple Avoid Tech Earnings Woes? (AAPL) (24/7 Wall St.)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:00:50 GMT

Investors holding Apple Inc. (NASDAQ; AAPL) and traders alike are all eagerly going to be waiting for Monday's (July 21) earnings release after the close. We... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Economy Too Bad For Funerals? (SCI, CSV, STEI) (24/7 Wall St.)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:11:24 GMT

If you follow the death care industry, the one name you probably know is Service Corp. International (NYSE: SCI). There is a second tier small player that many... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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FRBSF: Can Young Americans Compete in a Global Economy? (Economist's View)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:17:00 GMT

Clive Crook recently: A startling and profoundly important fact about the US economy has received surprisingly little attention. The educational quality of the country's workers is starting to decline - not just relatively (because other countries are catching up and...

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Bailout Nation: Treasury, SEC on Bailouts (The Big Picture)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:00 GMT

I did three segments Tuesday on Yahoo Tech Ticker at the Nasdaq: Here is the last, on Bailouts, Fannie & Freddie: Click for video Source: Bailout Nation: Paulson, Cox, Shorts Weigh in On Fannie, Freddie Aaron Task Yahoo Tech Ticker, Jul 15, 2008 07:00am EDT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/39342/Bailout-Nation-Paulson-Cox-Shorts-Weigh-in-On-Fannie-Freddie?tickers=FNM,FRE,GM,TM,%5EDJI,%5ESPX,XLF...

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Ethanol DeathWatch Map (The Big Picture)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Regular readers know I am no fan of ethanol -- over-subsidized gasoline substitute that has helped to drive food inflation aggressively higher (and, it gunks up my engines!) With the price of Oil down $18 over the past week -- off 12% from the $147 high -- perhaps its time to pull out the BioFuels/Ethanol DeathWatch Map. Its a terrific Google Maps Mashup (via GigaOm) that shows the various biofuel...

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Ignore the Headlines: Housing Starts Declined In June (The Big Picture)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:01:41 GMT

I didn't post on this yesterday, as I assumed -- wrongly it turns out -- that everyone would understand how new building codes in NYC effective July 1 skewed the new Home Starts to the upside. I've already read several embarrassing misunderstandings of this aberrational data (we will keep them anonymous to protect the guilty). In a wildly optimistic, misguided attempt to straighten out some folks who...

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