Wikipedia has a great entry on the subprime housing bubble for anyone who wants a primer on the bubble and a subprime housing bubble timeline. Follow the link here. This a pretty comprehensive entry with some pretty heady stuff and a lot of good bits of information like:

A timeline from February 2007
A look [...]

I don’t talk about George W. Bush that much, but his poll numbers have hit a new low: 23%.
Despite a brief rebound last month, the overall mood of Americans has since fallen sharply, with majorities now taking a negative view of both U.S. economic policy and their own personal financial situation, a new [...]

Caroline Baum was asking in her column today: “How can a 2 percent funds rate be appropriately calibrated to promote moderating inflation when inflation is currently rising at almost 4 percent?” The answer: it can’t. The Fed is all about easy money.
Look, we have a huge debt problem in this country. Have [...]

The United States has gone from saving an average of 8-10% of income for decades to zero or negative savings today. If you look at this chart of 12-month rolling average monthly data, it looks like people actually saved more as inflation increased in the 1960s and 1970s. Then, the bottom fell [...]

A great article on the website Safe Haven asks the important question: Can you trust the government’s data. I had the same question in a post called “Last week’s GDP numbers.” Here’s what Michael Pento has to say in his article:
The following graphs show G.D.P. growth rates using the chain type price index, [...]

I am flabbergasted at this figure: $31 million. In no other country would any politician run up this much debt in an election. It speaks to the cost of our current system of democracy. Isn’t there a less costly way to run a country?

The LA Times is reporting that Hillary Clinton is [...]

As good a battle as Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) could give, her candidacy was handicapped from the outset. Despite her overwhelming lead in the polls in 2007, it has been obvious all along that many Democrats and independents were looking for someone, anyone but HRC as a nominee. Why? Clinton fatigue.
You [...]

As Hillary Rodham Clinton rolled up a huge victory in Kentucky and lost the Oregon primary to Barack Obama, it is clear that the ‘Kitchen Sink’ strategy is no longer. She is playing much more of a united front with the probable nominee. The blog The Carpetbagger Report sees this as a net [...]

A leading Spansh newspaper, ABC, reported today that Spanish growth is decelerating quickly. According to the paper, year-on-year growth slowed from 3.5% to 2.7% while quarter-on-quarter, growth was only 0.3% versus 0.8% in the previous quarter.
The article goes on to say that construction spending has been hampering both growth and employment as housing has [...]

This is the provocative title of an article a friend I greatly respect sent me. Have a go at it at the link at the bottom of the following quote; it is very blunt and sincere. The article says:
Feminisms of all sorts have moved beyond the idea that feminism is a white woman’s thing; [...]