Links: 2009-12-30


Finance

  • Business Spectator – Was the GFC a mathematical error? – Blog – Steve Keen (hat tip Rolfe Winkler)
  • Keep a "Clean" Credit Card to Dig Out of Debt – Debt – Lifehacker
  • GM ups discounts to sell Pontiac, Saturn inventory| Reuters
  • FT.com – US to tax Chinese steel grating imports
  • On Goldman’s (and Now Morgan Stanley’s) Deceptive Synthetic CDO Practices (aka Screwing Their Customers) – Yves Smith

    Politics

  • Why the Democrats will lose the House in 2010 | James Pethokoukis
  • FT.com – Paul Kennedy – Rome offers Obama a lesson in limits
  • Obama Moves to Curb Federal Secrets – NYTimes.com
  • The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill
  • Arianna Huffington: Move Your Money: A New Year’s Resolution
  • Maureen Dowd – As the Nations Pulse Races, Obama Cant Seem to Find His – NYTimes.com

    Society

  • Not Just Tigers Temptations – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
  • Sheen’s free pass – NYPOST.com
  • Loneliness can also lead to animal hoarding – washingtonpost.com
  • Older drivers face choice between safety and mobility – washingtonpost.com

    Tech

  • Leaked Nexus One Documents: $530 Unlocked, $180 With T-Mobile – Nexus one – Gizmodo
  • With Nexus One, Is Google Eating Its Own Dogfood Or Its Own Children? – Tech Crunch

     

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  • avatar About Edward Harrison

    Edward Harrison is the founder of Credit Writedowns and a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty years of business experience. He is also a regular economic and financial commentator on BBC World News, CNBC Television, Business News Network, CBC, Fox Television and RT Television. He speaks six languages, a skill he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

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