Due to the market crash today, I will be making extra heavy posts. But, rather than over-post on the blog, I will be posting news items in the News Feed. Please check My News Feed in the sidebar.

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Today I added My News Feed to the blog’s sidebar, so that anyone visiting the site can also see the news items that we post once daily as a part of my RSS Feed and Newsletter.
The benefit of the feed and newsletter version is that all the links for the day are together in one [...]

Readers,
I have noticed recently that Google Reader has been taking an annoyingly long time to update some of my RSS feeds. NewsGator and Microsoft Outlook clients do not seem to have this problem. I have been trying to get a straight answer from Google as to what is happening, but am having little [...]

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I am happy to announce that I am going to feature a guest blogger every week at the weekend. My guest host will be none other than Marshall Auerback of Prudent Bear fame.
Many of you may recall, Marshall wrote the international column at the Prudent Bear for a considerable time, giving his insight on [...]

Hi everyone. Just a little admin here.
Graphs and chartsYou probably noticed in my posts on U.S. jobless claims and inflation that my graphs were looking MUCH improved.
Well, I have been reading Tim Iacono’s site and have always thought, “why do his graphs look so good and my look so crap?” Then I [...]

Hello readers!
I have some admin news to update you on. A few months ago, I migrated my site over to a new URL and I have not updated my RSS feed to reflect the new address. I know that many of you look at my blog via RSS Feeds or e-mail. [...]

Dear Readers,
In honor of Memorial Day and the Bank Holiday in the UK, I have given my blog a bit of a makeover.

The look and feel is quite different. Hopefully, you find it easier on the eyes and better for navigation.
The title has changed from “Ed’s Forum” to “Credit Writedowns: Ed’s Forum” to reflect the [...]

As you know, I am looking at the UK and Spain as the epicenter for the next leg down in the housing bubble. Spain suffered massive overbuilding while the UK had a huge run-up in prices.
The Blogger at UK Bubble is on to something in her analyses. It’s a good site that is [...]

I stumbled across an interesting blog over the weekend called “The Automatic Earth.” I had been doing some research into writedowns at financial institutions due to loan losses and asset impairment when a great entry from The Automatic Earth popped up. It said:
An important yet mostly neglected little “detail” that will come home [...]