24 July 2010

PBS has a great video and article on how dispersants are being used in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blow-out. The video is below. The related article linked at the bottom has another video on using methane to measure the…

PBS' Paul Solman takes another look at Spain's economic woes, which include a 20 percent unemployment rate. In the Web extra above, he talks to British economist Edward Hugh, a long-time resident of Barcelona, about Span's underground…

When I run these links at Yves Q. Smith's site Naked Capitalism I am a bit the chatty Cathy. Here I run them sans commentary. For those of you who read both, the difference is simple: when in Rome. For those of you who don't, check out NC,…

Barry Ritholtz offers this graph (courtesy of The Chart Store). Barry offers no further comment with the graph, but I started to wonder if the "bubble" in capitalization could be explained by the increase in business done…