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US to pay $500 billion to service mega debt

Earlier this month, I did a blog entry warning of worse times ahead with the US debt hitting $12 trillion. Just how bad is it going to get? As the New York Times warns, the US is now facing waves of debt payments. Servicing that debt will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019, up from $202...

就这样吧，谷歌也就是家中国公司

• 就这样吧，谷歌也就是家中国公司 • Windows Azure opens for business on Jan. 1, 2010 • BlackBerry Internet Service hit with data outages worldwide • 狮子座流星雨 • Google Chrome 4.0.249.0 Dev • Avatar Machine • 狮子座流星雨光临地球：流星将达数千颗 • 网易邮箱里的即时通讯组件 • Central Desktop Integrates Zoho Sheet • Twitter...

Christianity and the crash

Did Christianity cause the market meltdown? Probably not completely but according to Hanna Rosin at The Atlantic , it fueled the housing bubble that created the crash. In her piece, Rosin talks about a different strain of Christian faith which has has grown in popularity, one that promises ...

Get your game on, CIOs

McKinsey says it's "Time to raise the CIO's game" and I couldn't agree more. Don't get me wrong, I am as hesitant as ever to jump on the "this changes everything" bandwagon. I didn't buy into the "we don't need a business plan, we're on the Internet!" game that fueled the dot-com bubble, and I'm...

Is China about to collapse?

Hedge fund manager James Chanos will go down in history as the first to predict that Enron was a disaster in the making. Chanos is in the business of scrutinizing companies for their flaws and then making a fortune by betting against them. Now, he is predicting that China is about to co...

Seen that? - A new red gem: Lava lump

A new red gem: Lava lump at WebKinzBlog we found Lava lump in muzzle mouth mine. total hayley has: 26 how many hayley needs: 4 percentage done: 87% [...] Read More Giveaway: Green Lava Lamp at WebKinzBlog ...

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Waiting for the crash

Just a few days ago was the 80th anniversary of the stock market crash. October 29, 1929, or "Black Tuesday" was the day that resulted in banks collapsing and the once-roaring US economy sinking into the Great Depression. As we think back to the worst stock market collapse ever, it might be ...

Over-valued S&P to tumble and the double dip recession.

Is the stock market over-valued? Can we expect it to fall again? In an interview with the Financial Times, which I blogged about here , billionaire financier George Soros warns that we can expect a contraction. "I think certainly there could be another dip in the stock market because, right...

Lie To Me Season 2 : Ep. 3 - Control Factor

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Dubai can't meet debts

Every time I have been in Dubai, I always feeling that it's a bubble and that it will sink back into sand. In the past, I have looked at Dubai's vulnerability to the recession because of its dependency on real estate, tourism, trade and financial services, the sectors that have really take...

Seen that? - NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind

NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind at The Hedge Funds Weblog When you look at the numbers as a trader, you must shack your head and laugh.. We are watching the Millionaire boys club. In play, at full speed. The valuation of Intellectual property ,...

Dashboard Widgets – lustige Spielchen

Kleine Computerspiele machen Spaß! Sie sorgen für eine unterhaltsame Pause und fördern unseren Spieltrieb - das Kind in uns erwacht. Ich möchte Euch heute gerne ein paar lustige Spiele Widgets vorstellen, die nicht nur kostenlos sind, sondern auch Fun bringen! Bubble Bazinga Ein echter Klas...

California - America's first failed state?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's regime keeps lurching from one disaster to the next. California's lawmakers are looking to revamp the budget but according to this news report , the budget might be looking okay now but it will create a disaster in 2010-2011 because it was using a raft of accou...

IPO boom out of sync

Another sign that the stock market is out of sync with the real world. On one hand, new figures show that the gap between the richest and poorest Americans is getting wider. As reported here , the wealthiest 10% percent of Americans on more than $138,000 each year, earned 11.4 times what thos...

魔鬼辞典之金融危机

随着金融危机从"狼来了"变成活生生的磨难，金融业的一些特有隐语也进入到了日常对话中。对于不熟悉华尔街这个小圈子的人来说，这种出乎意料的变化可能让他们不快。 安布罗斯•比尔斯(Ambrose Bierce)在1906年出版的魔鬼辞典《愤世嫉俗者词汇手册》(The Cynic's Word Book)中对当时的政治和文化用语给出了独出心裁的解释。按照这种精神，《华尔街日报》也在雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)倒闭一周年之际编写了一个缩写词、新词和滥用词入门手册，这些词可以让人通俗、形像地了解雷曼倒闭给世人留下的烂摊子。 AAA，名词，废词。一种修辞工...

Finding Your Focus

© victoriapeckham Sometimes we need to take a break from the everyday bustle and refocus. Why did we get into business in the first place? What inspired us to strike out into the unknown? Recently I'd been going through the motions but I saw a commercial that made me stop and remembe...

Nothing learned from Lehman collapse

On the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, President Obama will be calling for quicker action on financial reforms. But will it have the desired effect? That's unlikely. Wall Street has not changed at all. As Stevenson Jacobs from Associated Press reports, risk taking fo...

The next bubbles

All bubbles lead to a meltdown. This is what's so alarming in this Business Insider piece that talks about 10 bubbles in the making: China; gold; renewable energy; the Fed snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, A...

Inhalant Powder Measles Vaccine

Scientists have developed the first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles . This less invasive method of delivery are best suited particularly in developing countries where there are areas that often lack the electricity for refrigeration, clean water and sterile needles needed to administer...

Trying to time the bottom

Did you see the housing crash coming? There were certainly enough warning signs. Maybe the better question is this: Did you see the housing crash coming and did you do something about it? In other words, in early 2006 when housing prices were reaching their peak, did you sell your home for a big pr...

Links of London Jewelry 2009

British Designer Jewelry Links of London was founded in 1990. They offer an eclectic mix of men's and women's jewelry in sterling silver and 18 carat gold , with an enviable collection of charms and charm bracelets for you to choose from. Links of London believes in design and function...

Phillips Wake-Up Light is My Kind of Alarm

I need some space when I wake up. For whatever reasons, my bubble is very large in the morning, and the last thing I need is a disturbing alarm. Phillips, who made my current "gentle nature" sound alarm clock has created a gentle glow alarm, that comes complete with support for my iPhone. ...

Why a carbon tax is better than cap and trade

The world is moving to a global carbon trading regime. It should reconsider and look at a carbon tax instead. Cleaner, and less susceptible to vested interests cutting deals with politicians. A bit gets handed out here, another there and soon the entire system becomes unworkable. The good thing ...

The new carbon bubble

Despite global recession, reports show the carbon market is booming, up 124% in volume terms and 22% in terms of value. And unfortunately, we might be looking at another bubble. A Friends of the Earth report , cap and trade is just another derivatives market. "Currently, most carbon is ...

Can YouTube survive?

How much money is YouTube losing? How much is it costing Google? That's been one of the fascinating questions doing the rounds for some time. And it's anyone's guess. Rhodri Marsden at The Independent suggests YouTube's future is not looking that flash. "YouTube's la...

Housing slump boosts population in New York City, other big cities

The housing slump has certainly had some unforeseen consequences. For instance, it may have actually helped boost the number of people living in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. A story by Bloomberg News theorizes that falling home values in the suburbs of California and Florida may h...

The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest

Hard to go past Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone where he accuses it of engineering every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Taibbi doesn't pull any punches either. He calls it the "Wall Street bubble mafia". He writes: "If America is circling the drain...

Beware the China bubble

Worrying signs are emerging from China with reports that we are seeing the creation of an asset price bubble in that market. There was 4.57 trillion yuan (or about $US670 billion) of new lending pouring into the market but most of that was on speculative assets, not the real economy. Fitch Ra...

Banks fight to keep accounting tricks

US accounting standard setters might be tightening the rules for banks, forcing them to take off balance sheet toxic vehicles on to their books but don't expect the banks to take that lying down. Up until now, the banks had kept assets and liabilities including mortgages and credit-card re...

Fashion Blogger Day in Wien

Hoffen wir, dass sich die Wettermänner irren und in Wien an diesem Wochenende doch ein wenig die Sonne scheint... Denn die internationale Modeblogger-Szene trifft sich im Rahmen des 9festival for fashion and photography , um in dem Panel "Fash Clash: Discussing the Digital Controvers...

Krugman, Soros and Roubini: how to fix the crisis

Hard to go past this piece from the New York Review of Books where they run a symposium on the financial bloodbath with comments from a team that includes financier George Soros and economists Paul Krugman and Nouriel Roubini. Krugman says he is concerned about the long run solvency of the US...

Jolie B. Ray Jewelry

Gold and Gemstone Jewelry Tanya Tochner and Marjorie Troob have found a calling and a true connection, designing jewelry. After having careers in the corporate world and raising young children, these two women decided they needed a creative outlet. Realizing they both had a passion for fine je...

Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

A bull market is a random market movement that causes an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius. It's a joke that illustrates the irrational animal forces that drive markets. In this book , the University of California's Akerlof and Shiller, best-selling author and professo...

Nouriel Roubini: we're not even at the bottom yet

Anyone who thinks we have seen the worst of the recession should think again. Dr Doom, Nouriel Roubini says we haven't even hit the bottom yet. In this interview with Newsweek , Roubini says the economists who are talking about "green shoots" have it wrong. The market, he says, i...

Classic Car Collector Buys a Spitfire

So you think the prices asked for classic cars are outrageous, especially during economic hard times? Try buying a vintage aircraft . An airworthy two-seater Supermarine Mk IX Spitfire aircraft was recently sold for $2,527,784 during a Bonhams Collectors Motor Car sale . The buyer was Steven ...

Assessing the Future of Venture Capitalism

Scott Dig took a stab recently at explaining the plight of venture capital companies in terms of broad historic trends and I thought his take on the issue was interesting - especially when contrasted with opinions like this one over at Red Herring. The venture capital model remains broken af...

Hope, greed, fear and the financial crisis

Interesting piece from Wharton on the psychology behind the financial crisis. It makes the point that the crisis was underpinned by a mix of optimism and delusion, which created the bubble in the first place. And it makes the point that people are now so traumatized that they have become ...

Millionaires and fake prosperity

Shed a tear for the rich. In some of the most cringe-making reporting I've seen yet, we have the news that number of millionaires in the United States has fallen by more than a quarter because of the financial crisis. There are 2.5 million fewer of them and the rich are crying poor. The t...

The Great Depression Ahead by Harry S Dent

With billionaire investor George Soros and former federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker saying the global financial meltdown is worse than the Great Depression, it might be time to look at Dent's book . Dent, an economist and professional forecaster says we ain't seen nothing yet. H...

The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris

The book from Morris provides some interesting insights into the market's implosion. It's not that we didn't have any warning. Morris makes the point that the collateralised mortgage obligations crisis, the 1987 stock market crash and the collapse of Long Term Capital Management w...

Greenspan wants to nationalize banks

Last week, I did a blog entry that said US banks were insolvent and quoting Dr Doom, economics professor Nouriel Roubini, saying that the only answer is to nationalize the US banks. Now we have the high priest of the financial markets, Alan Greenspan, telling the Financial Times that the th...

Bad Money by Kevin Phillips

The latest book from political and economic pundit Phillips is a sobering reflection of how we got into this mess. Phillips identifies the problem coming from three structural issues. The first is that financial services have expanded massively. In 1950, financial services were worth 10.9% of...

The Return of Depression Economics and Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman's book lays it on the line well, with its acute analysis of how things went wrong. One of the most striking features about this book is the way Krugman tracks economic meltdowns over the ages. And after a while, they start bearing a striking similarity. He looks at the implos...

Sugar-Free, Dye-Free ZYRTEC Allergy Syrup for Kids

Zyrtec Syrup for children is now available in a new Bubble Gum flavor ! It's sugar-free, dye-free medication used to treat perennial and seasonal allergic rhinitis (i.e., indoor and outdoor allergies) in children ages two years and older. It should be available in original prescription ...

Ponzi schemes proliferate

When the Bernard Madoff scandal broke, it was inevitable more Ponzi schemes would come to light. For a good reason too. With every bubble there is fraud. Look behind every bubble and you'll find the cousins of fraud, greed and unchecked enthusiasm. So when the biggest one we've seen unwi...

The meltdown's rogue gallery

So who is responsible for the financial crisis? The Guardian's City editor Julia Finch picks out the 25 who were at the heart of the meltdown . The list is headed by former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan who allowed the housing bubble to develop as a result of his low interest rates, who...

Maths and the meltdown

One of the big drivers of this financial meltdown were the econometric models that saw mathematics guiding investor behavior. The reality is that the big drivers of bubbles are social and psychological. What's needed now is some sort of infrastructure that can anticipate our thinking, inhib...

Winners and losers for 2008

Around this time every year, everyone rolls out their list of winners and losers for the last 12 months. There are lists everywhere but the best I've seen is from the Houston Chronicle's Loren Steffy . Not surprisingly, Steffy nominates Wall Street as the biggest loser. Not far behind ...

New era of regulation

The new world order with regulation is now emerging. Gone are the days when the so-called "free market" was the only game in town. We are now seeing a reappraisal of the "free markets" notion. Governments and investors are starting to realise that this does not mean total de...

George W rewrites history

Fell out of my seat when I read the LA Times piece about a memo sent to Bush cabinet members and top officials at a loss to explain what Bush's eight years in the White House had achieved. The so-called achievements would laughable if the damage wasn't serious. Like for example the c...

Race To Dubai Slowing Down?

More signs of the times point to an ominous future for Professional golf tours around the world in 2009. This past week, Honda announced its withdrawal from Formula One auto racing. The company's team budget ran at more than 290 million dollars per season. Honda simply can't affor...

No quick fix for US housing market

The US housing market continues to go from catastrophic to worse, with delinquency rate for Mortgage loans, 90 days overdue, has hit record levels, according to the latest figures from the Mortgage Bankers' Association . The problem is that at the height of the real estate boom, borrow...

GM Chairman Leaves Jet in Detroit, Returns to Washington at the Wheel of a Car

So The Three Amigos had their egos slapped in Washington for arriving at the moneyfest in their corporate jets? Like other critics I railed at this flagrant abuse of funds while secretly envying them the opportunity. That's because I love airplanes and living next to an international airp...

The Subprime Solution - Robert Shiller

Have just finished reading Robert Shiller's The Subprime Solution which offers plenty of food for thought. Provocative and unsettling stuff. Shiller argues that the the impact of the US housing bust could last for years. "It is impossible to predict the nature and extent of the dama...

Rubin's self-serving "innocence"

Of all the disgraceful moments following the implosion of Citigroup, this Wall Street Journal interview with Citigroup director and Bill Clinton's former Treasury honcho Robert Rubin probably takes the cake. Rubin claims innocence about Citi, insisting that no-one saw it coming. This is c...

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Tough Times Ahead

Tiger in Dubai. Courtesy: The Telegraph There is a dark cloud looming for the PGA Tour in America. No, it's John Daly's latest drunken binge, although that is bad enough (the man is through, is he not?). The dark cloud is deflation. I am certain that Tim Finchem looks at the headlin...

Weblogs, Inc. Three Years Later: Impressive Page View And Revenue Growth

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Starbucks and the recession

A fascinating theory put up by the irrepressible Daniel Gross at Newseek that there is a correlation between the concentration of Starbucks outlets in a country's financial capital and the likelihood of it entering a recession. "At first blush, there's a pretty close correlation ...

Britain to enter a worse recession than the US

Britain is about to enter a bad recession, warns the Bank of England Governor Mervyn King. The problem in Britain has been the ocean of credit that fueled the housing price bubble. Now that ocean is drying up, there is an inevitable downturn. But King seems to saying that we might be turning ...

Forecasts of the economic disaster

With forecasts that the world is headed for its worst recession in 25 years, if it's lucky, the Huffington Post has run a timely piece on the ones who predicted the economic firestorm. They include New York University economics professor Nouriel Roubini ("A 1987 style stock market ...

New & Notable - Black Amethyst from Bath & Body Works

Bath & Body Works ' has just introduced their most sophisticated fragrance yet - Black Amethyst , the brand's first-ever chypre scent. Created by John Gamba , Master Perfumer at givaudan , Black Amethyst was "inspired by the chic, aristocratic European women who are dra...

WiiWare getting Bubble Bobble Game

Taito has released a Bubble Bobble game for Wii. Bubble Bobble is a classic and frankly one of the greatest two player coop games ever conceived. The idea is stupid simple: cute lil' dinosaurs encapsulate monsters in bubbles, and you get fruit. Wash rinse repeat for a billion stages, and yo...

Online Poker Promos

image from APCW.com A couple of newish going ons at the online poker rooms: Full Tilt has added on to its popular "Iron Man Challenge" series which medals and freerolls are given to those who tough it out on the virtual felt nearly every day. The "one-a-day" freeroll is a...

The Economic Crisis - and an Opportunity

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Nataliya Kostenyukova This week, ZDNet published an article entitled " India's Outsourcing Bubble is Bursting " - describing the slowdown as it effects the IT Outsourcing labor market in Bangalore. While it doesn't appear that Bangalore is in the...

Bodog Open II Starts Sunday

image from poker.com Despite all the lashing at Bodog Poker lately, they are going forward with the second installment of the Bodog Open . Starting on Sunday September 28th, Bodog will be hosting several Hold Em' tournaments (and only Hold Em') over the course of next week with buy-i...

Sammelsurium KW 38

6258804 Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Felix M Nachdem mich am Anfang der Woche die grippe packte und bis heute noch nicht wirklich losgelassen hat, hatte ich genug Zeit, um ein paar interessante Links zusammen zu stellen. Nächste Woche Dienstag beginnt die Photokina . Von der werden sich...

Oil prices and the credit crisis

What does the rising oil price have to do with the credit crunch. The two are inextricably linked, says financier George Soros . Soros says: "We are currently experiencing the bursting of a credit bubble that has involved the entire financial system and, at the same time, a rise and event...

Fall is Bubblicious

I am such a fan of Etsy! I love that on this site, there are so many amazing indie designers that have fab hand made goodies. One of them, Softspoken Shop , has super cute berets that come in a variety of colors. Shown here in rust, this is the perfect way to accessorize as you're out and ...