The Progress of the Financial Crisis in One Picture: Mortgages, Flight to Safety, Credit Lock

Markus Brunnermeier provides an excellent summary graph of the financial crisis, told in "spreads". Figure 3 from Brunnermeier ( ... , to have excessive mismatch in asset-liability maturities, and to be too 36 interconnected. Brunnermeier ... it" meme, see 1 , 2 (h/t DeLong).) Technorati Tags [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 04:32:53

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Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management

Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Domino ISG provides real-time traffic control that eliminates the delays, errors, and omissions of manual tracking. Asset tracking systems automatically monitors movements at... Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 04:02:35

Milan should cash in as City come calling for Kaka

It’s no surprise that Manchester City are likely to make a world-record transfer bid for Ricky Kaka ... why Milan may now take a more pragmatic approach to their prize asset. There is a need to strengthen ... The 22-year-old has been saddled with the “new Zidane” tag for long enough and now is the time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:00:00

Meta Tags: Little Helpers For Blog SEO

If you aren't familiar with meta tags, they are little snippets of code in the "head" section of web pages ... , you will have to take advantage of every little asset you come across. I am still amazed at the amount ... incomplete, or simply nonexistent.  These blogs will have a "title" tag for their posts and nothing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 02:17:12

Meet your new owner of the San Diego Padres…Jeff Moorad!

You’re overwhelmed with excitement, aren’t you? You might remember Jeff Moorad as the CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks [Ed: You do? ... in California give Becky Moores a 50 percent share of that asset and she must agree to any sale. Ed ... , for all of you who may have forgotten has an estimated price tag of $1.3 billion dollars. Although I hardly think [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:31:39

influx quote of the day- shirky on newspapers

"By the turn of the century, anyone who didn't understand that the business model for newspapers was a wasting asset was caught up in nothing ... increasingly like now." Clay Shirky- Boing Boing- December 8th- 2008 Posted by Ed Cotton Tags [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 07:07:35

Caroline Kennedy, you know?

Caroline Kennedy's run for NY senator has surprised me on a few counts. ... as a mother as an asset to her candidacy for U.S. Senator, although in the aforementioned interview she couched this with an interesting pro-abortion tag: And so, you know, I think [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 18:05:56

AMEE

As anybody who has looked into dieting or just improving their nutrition knows, there is a lot of conflicting advice on the impact of fats and carbohydrates on your body. But no matter what you ultimately conclude, you are now in the good position that you can select your food accordingly. This has become possible because in the US ( [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 10:31:33

We Are All Keynesians Now

Do Deficits Matter? In the short term, it may not matter what anyone thinks.  There is a near universal political consensus that spending is the only solution that will save the economy.  This consensus is backed by a long list of economic experts; the same people who in the recent past had been predicting clear skies and strong economic growth [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 05:06:11

Housing recovery at least 1 year off, Insider Q&A told

Shopoff William Shopoff, CEO of the land-investment firm bearing his name, is a real estate man first and foremost ... down the coast. His $34.5 million price tag is just a half million bucks shy of the O.C. record ... . We have changed are staff with a focus more on acquisitions than project management. In addition [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 07:33:36

DAM firms disappearing

I found this article in eWeek really interesting: Midmarket Digital Asset Management Firms Disappearing Companies are drowning in content they generate, usually with no way to organize it. Furthermore, as the article states, there is less and less support for SMBs, who can’t spend a fortune on software. Normally new firms would enter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:28:49

Moving the Job Creation Goalpost

Home a little late as the wife and I went out to dinner. A few quick hits and then some entertainment after a long week back at work. Moving the Goal Posts: A National PastimeBy now you have heard about the president Obama's stimulus plan that will create 3 million new jobs. At almost a 1 trillion dollar price tag, the bill [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 23:37:00

Creating a Print-Friendly Template in Movable Type

A couple of weeks ago, someone on the Six Apart Professional Network mailing list asked if there was a plugin for Movable Type that would create a ... and, as he describes it, MT-Collect: ...implements a set of template tags for collecting information from specified HTML tags in your entries, and collating and displaying that information. This lets [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 12:32:51

2009 Predictions: Hardware

In previous posts, I looked at macro-economics conditions and media related issues in 2009. In this entry, I’m venturing in the hardware space to attempt to divine what new gadgets we may see in the coming year. Televisions: Connected and Flat It’s been 15 years since the Internet revolution started to take hold and about 3 since video on the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 03:26:02

Avocent's Solutions Help Companies Save

Avocent headquarters in Huntsville, Al As budgets tighten, companies are looking for ways to do more with less ... collaboration tools. Today I would like to talk about data center management solutions, which can help ... where headcounts are shrinking at a greater rate than workloads. Avocent management team -- Ed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:53:11

Prop 8 Postmortem From Super-Volunteer (with Recommendations)

I am re-posting this diary for Bruce Hahne (a NO ON 8 "super-volunteer") who posted it on Daily Kos earlier today. It deserves to get much wider attention. I like the fact that it not only includes criticisms of the NO ON PROP 8 campaign from an insider but also recommendations on what to do in the next anti-gay ballot measure campaign [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 22:48:47

Red Sea to save Dead Sea from drying up

Under a groundbreaking plan, the Dead Sea could be saved from drying up by flooding millions of gallons of seawater in from the Red Sea more than ... that could be used to run a desalination plant to create drinkable water, a much needed asset in Jordan ... for a feasibility study has been found. The price tag for the whole project is currently assessed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 11:08:04

Making it easier to debug and test your templates

Sometimes there can be nothing more frustrating than trying to troubleshoot publishing performance ... out huge swaths of code using the <mt:ignore> tag to hone in on the root cause - a cumbersome ... - this table not only shows the template tag name, but also the average time it took to process [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 18:39:24

Vice Presidential Candidates Who Helped the Ticket

Rhodes Cook is a veteran Washington political analyst who tracks national elections and voting trends and publishes a bimonthly political newsletter. Click here for Mr. Cook’s full bio. There is an old saying in politics that vice presidential candidates are never more important than on the day they are [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 17:00:00

New Year Scams 3

My Greeting To Me, I am Mr. Peter Phillip a Bank Manager here in Uk. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that you will not betray me. I believe it is the will of God for us to meet through this means. One Mr. Pedro Brito Rodriguez a US citizen and businessman made a (Fixed deposit) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 08:13:15

Sunday Morning "Talking Heads" 1-11-2009

George WenschhofBioThis Sunday will mark nine days until Inauguration Day and this morning will feature the incumbent President George W ... Troubled Asset Relief Bill (TARP) of which 350 Billion remains to be allocated by Congress. The biggest ... Recovery and Reinvestment Plan which could reach a price tag of 1 Trillion.Sure to also receive [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 12:00:00

Busted Part Four

Lifestyles of the Down and Busted I am not sure how being busted feels any different than being flush. A common complaint of those who are thriving in business is that they do not have time for their playthings, those things people envy when they see someone successful in business.Click to read the rest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:07:00

Bailout Defeated, What Now?

The shocking news from yesterday was the defeat of the $700 billion bailout bill that was supposedly going to save the known world from financial ... the expectations that were being set by Bush and Paulson. $700 billion is a big price tag for a short-term fix in my book. The bottom line is that the market needs to correct itself. Right now, asset [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 17:41:57

Advertisements that Work: Lessons from Tissue Pack Marketing

If you’ve been to Japan, you might have noticed the popular practice of tissue-pack marketing ... things I like about it: It is more than an ad. It is useful to the recipient. Bundled value asset ... : there is continual and repeated exposure over a period of time. A tissue pack isn’t the only asset [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 18:12:44

RFID and Digital Signage Integration

RFID tag integration for digital signage targeting and information display If we were to throw privacy out the window and just talk about the “far-out” technological possibilities of RFID and digital signage, we may well see how both ... ll certainly see more integration with other devices like mobile phones. In fact, RFID chips [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:29:14

There was a good discussion about whether it is appropriate to highlight real nitty-gritty detail after a question from Rev Ev about Phil’s highlighting of the conitinued use of the SPCK logo in one element of a window display on the Exeter shop:Whereas I agree with much that is said on this site about the whole SPCK/SSG scam this is, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:08:35

My wife got the gold mine and I got the shaft!

Everyone in the world has heard that old story about how "My wife got the gold mine and I got the shaft" but the true meaning of this joke that's not a joke didn't hit me until I read this...........................!An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered a Toronto man to continue paying child support even though a DNA test shows he is not the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:29:11

Buyers’ Market: 10 Popular Luxury Items You Can Buy for 10 Cents on the Dollar

Have you ever wanted to be in the middle of a buyer’s market? If you managed to stash some liquid funds, then you’re primed for this economy’s meltdown. A buyer’s market, or soft market, exists when there are more sellers than buyers. This excess of supply over demand results in lower prices, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:43:35

Hidden Costs of Items, Launch A Startup at 13: The Roundup

Hidden Costs of Items, Launch A Startup at 13: The Roundup by SVB on January 11, 2009 in Money Roundups Some exciting financial reads today! ... if you don’t overdo the debt). Amateur Asset Allocator shares with us some arguments against investing ... items. Do you know what’s built into a typical price tag? Recent Carnivals Carnival of Financial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 06:04:55

TAMING THE CELTIC TIGER…the collapse of the Irish building boom

from the NEW YORK TIMES: The Irish Economy’s Rise Was Steep, and the Fall Was Fast Derek Speirs for The New York Times The developer Sean Dunne and his wife, Gayle Killilea, at home in Dublin. It is not known whether Mr. Dunne will fall victim to the global financial crisis, but there is no doubt Ireland has. By LANDON THOMAS Jr [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 06:47:20

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

SY SAJJAD: Tracking prisoners inside correctional facilities, and when they leave

January 13, 2009- Sy Sajjad, CEO of AiRISTA, presents a platform approach to deliver a strategic advantage through integration of passive, active and semi-active RFID technologies. I understand that AiRISTA has experience in asset ... active RFID technology. What frequency does the monitoring use? SAJJAD: In our case [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:37:30

DrumBeat: November 17, 2008

EIA: OPEC 10 Month Oil Export Revenue +32% On Full-Year 2007 NEW YORK -(Dow Jones) ... and the global system of dominance that rests on it will run into limits it cannot transform -- so that it cannot ... the system of production and destruction to such a degree that it prevents it from resurrecting itself [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 13:33:17

Real Estate Investors benefit from Green Building Momentum

Every year around this time, I get the itch to move far away from the cold, gray streets of Baltimore. It's not that I dislike Charm City, but when the mercury falls below 40 degrees Fahrenheit, the lure of warmer climates becomes overwhelming [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 05:35:52

Use an Asset Management System and Obtain Complete Benefits

by Mary Bush It may be of great advantage to any enterprise, big or small, to save money wherever it is not required to be spent ... has a centrally accessible database that stores all the information. Also, barcode tags, barcode scanners [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 12:55:17

Where are you Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, Marcus Welby or Dr. House?

Where are you Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, Marcus Welby or Dr. House? Health Care - Perception or Reality, Either way Shit Happens Pardon my french, but Shit Happens seems to be an appropriate title for this entry into my blog. I believe it is an appropriate metaphor for most of the issues I've encountered over the past year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:33:43

With 9 days to go until sanity hits the White House again, I woke up to some mews that alarmed me.  The White House has notified Congress that they could soon seek the $350 billion remaining from TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program).  Once the request comes in, Congress could try to block [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 21:54:33

Related Entries with Images & Recent Assets Linked to Entries

Movable Type bloggers ♥ related entries template recipes and I've come up with what I think is one of the best ones out here. Further, Movable Type bloggers using version MT 4+ with its built-in Asset Management have also ... and not the context of where the image was used. Of course, an image asset can be used multiple times [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 02:33:06

Should GE be a AAA company," I said "GE Capital isn't even a bank. The FDIC only deals with depositary institutions. Are you kidding me? ... Department's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Genworth declined to say what amount [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 12:07:25

"The $10 Trillion Hangover"...

You gotta read this...(Apologies and thanks to Harper's, etc.)The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for Eight Years of BushBy Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. StiglitzGraphics by Nigel Holmes--In the eight years since George W. Bush took office, nearly every component of the U.S. economy has deteriorated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 13:21:00

Fed Watch: Bad to Worse

Tim Duy looks at monetary and fiscal policy options in light of an economy that continues to slide downhill: Bad to Worse, by Tim Duy: From bad to worse is about the only way to describe the flow of data last week. With each new data point, the case for additional stimulus grows [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 08:24:00

Words from the (investment) wise 12.28.08

Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008. With the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by 35.8% and 40.6% respectively for the year to date, many investors would be anxious to wave the old year goodbye [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 12:31:33

Good-bye 2008: Wish We Never Knew Ya!

Much like an embarrassing family member or friend, or humiliating past pictures taken of you in a ridiculous outfit or pose, ... had its worst year since 1931 and every asset class you can think of was bludgeoned with the heavy club [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 14:30:56

Book Review: Investing in an Uncertain Economy for Dummies

The winner of the book Killing Sacred Cows is Jane’s Friend. Please contact me at livingalmost at gmail dot com! I hope to hear back from you ... to have a monthly payout every month or annually, but at what price tag? The fees will eat you alive [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 14:00:11

Totally underwater on the house

We have been one year now in our home in Winston-Salem. It is the first home we ever owned after years of renting apartments and houses. It is a decent house with three bedrooms, master suite, separate dining room, a big back yard and so on [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 21:15:34

Obama: only government can lift us from a recession this deep and severe

Author: Dave Obama: only government can lift us from a recession this deep and severe Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:32 am (GMT 0) ... growing and asset prices begin to fall. At that point, as president-elect Obama correctly states, only ... from congressional Republicans, some of whom have questioned the price tag on the stimulus, Obama says [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:07:31

blinkx Launches Automated Video Metadata Enrichment Service for Publishers

blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, ... of the digital asset, which makes the videos easier to find, and therefore increases traffic and the potential ... solution does more than just help publishers and content owners better ‘tag’ their videos,” said [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 02:00:00

Print-Friendly Movable Type Templates, Part 2: Dynamic Publishing

In my last tutorial, I explained how to use the MT-Collect plugin to create a print-friendly entry template. One problem with this method is, since MT-Collect is an older plugin, it doesn't work with dynamically published templates. This is a shame, since a print version really lends itself to dynamic publishing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 09:24:35

Madoff had $173m in cheques in office, say prosecutors - The Guardian, ik - link (aqui)

Prosecutors argued the 100 cheques are further evidence Madoff should be jailed pending trial Daniel Nasaw in Washington and Haroon Siddique guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 January 2009 19.03 GMT Article history Bernard Madoff, the disgraced Wall Street trader accused of conning clients out of $50bn (£33bn) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:09:00

What Are Bill Gross and Pimco Buying?

Forbes Magazine did a recent interview with Pimco Total Return Bond Fund manager, Bill Gross ... to be the one asset that people want to own during a deleveraging cycle. They weren’t leveraged ... buying bank preferred stocks — JP Morgan Chase, Bank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 09:15:39

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