The Greedy Bastards Antidote to Rigged Energy
This post originally appeared at Treehugger.com on February 7, 2012. - by Brian Merchant For decades now, fossil fuel company executives and D.C. politicians have worked together to ensure that coal and oil prices stay low enough to keep the American people hooked. In his new book Greedy Bastards, Dylan Ratigan explains how “vampire industries”...
Sketching Interfaces Workshop
Sketching Interfaces Workshop – Interactions12 (Dublin)
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Tinkerbell Economics – The Confidence Fairy, Pixie Dust and a Sleeping Dragon
Dan Alpert is a founding Managing Partner of Westwood Capital. He has more than 30 years of international merchant banking and investment banking experience, including a wide variety of work-out and bankruptcy related restructuring experience. In addition to his structured finance expertise, Dan has extensive experience advising on mergers, acquisitions and private equity financings, he...
Europe Rises Up Against ACTA
Widespread Protests Are Starting to Turn the Tide Against Anti-Democratic Bill The widespread protests against the anti-democracy bill ACTA by the Polish people have forced Poland’s prime minister to stall – or perhaps even back out – of the treaty. As TechDirt notes: Following the growing protests about ACTA in Europe, as well as signs...
To Rush Limbaugh: A Lesson On The Seasonal Adjustment
While perusing various articles on the Employment Situation Summary that was released yesterday (2/3/2012), I came across this transcript from the Rush Limbaugh radio show where Rush decides essentially that we shouldn’t bother with the seasonally adjusted numbers and only look at the raw (NSA) job creation number from the Establishment Survey (likely because this...
Who Took My Easy Button?
Who Took My Easy Button? By John Mauldin February 4, 2012 > Who Took My Easy Button? Putting a Good Employment Number in Perspective When a College Education Isn’t Enough We’re All Turning Greek Who Can Afford Health Care? > Everyone knows by now that the US is facing difficult choices. Depending on what assumptions...
Greece; Fabulous US employment/ISM data
Lots of conflicting news re Greece. To summarise: Rumours that the acting PM (Papademos) was going to resign – denied. He has called for a meeting of all political parties for this weekend; The Euro group meeting scheduled for Monday has been postponed – no new date set, though thought to be later in the...
No Rick Santelli and Zero Hedge, One Million People Did Not Drop Out of the Labor Force Last Month
SilverOz is an MPA specializing in local economic development and have worked in local economic development for a mid-sized midwestern county for over 10 years. He has personally worked on/managed projects that have totaled over $500 million in direct investment into the county. ~~~ So today following an otherwise pretty darn good jobs report, we...
NYAG Sues MERS, BAC, JPM, WFC
A.G. SCHNEIDERMAN ANNOUNCES MAJOR LAWSUIT AGAINST NATION’S LARGEST BANKS FOR DECEPTIVE & FRAUDULENT USE OF ELECTRONIC MORTGAGE REGISTRY Complaint Charges Use Of MERS By Bank Of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, And Wells Fargo Resulted In Fraudulent Foreclosure Filings Servicers And MERS Filed Improper Foreclosure Actions Where Authority To Sue Was Questionable Schneiderman: MERS And Servicers...
Spain & Greece
SPAIN: A bit old and the Spanish banking regulator has started to force banks to BEGIN to address the issue. However, the situation remains extremely serioussssss, guys. Once again, WATCH OUT FOR SPAIN. The new administration has inherited a can of worms from the previous Government. It will be forced to reduce GDP growth forecasts,...
