5 November 2009

I was reading Kid Dynamite's account of the recent Treasury - Finance Blogger meeting after having read a bunch of others (see them all in Abnormal Returns’ Nov 4th links). And I was struck by his characterization of the thinking at…

I have been reading press accounts of the GM decision to back out of the Opel/Vauxhall sale to the Magna/Sberbank consortium from various countries. There are a lot of different perspectives on this event in the U.S., Belgium, Spain,…

The Department of Labor data released this morning indicated that 512,000 people filed initial claims for unemployment insurance in the latest week.  This is down 20,000 from last week and marks the last data points we are to get on…

Be sure to see William Shatner’s poetic reading of Levi Johnston’s tweets below. Pretty funny. Buffett Revisits Hunting Ground for Survivors: Alice Schroeder - Bloomberg.com "Buffett isn’t as bullish as he sounds." Clever…