Its called “Inside the meltdown” and full of left-liberal pundits, but it is a pretty good description of what went on during those crucial months last year.
Here it is…
Posts Tagged ‘stock markets’
Interesting program on PBS
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Legislation, Media, tagged Financial Markets, Global Economy, Government intervention, stock markets, US Economy on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
American recovery and reinvestment plan…. Whatever!
Posted in Economy, Energy technology, Environment, Environmentalism, Financial Markets, Incidental-musing, Investment, Legislation, Media, Stockmarket, Technology, Thought-Trails, tagged American recovery and reinvestment plan, Broadband internet access, Conservative Economists, Depression, Economic Depression, Financial Markets, Global depression, Global Economy, Global Recession, Green Energy, High speed rail roads in US, House, Hybrid cars, John Kenneth Galbraith, Liberal Economists, Main Street, National Power grid, Senate, stock markets, Tax breaks, Tax cuts, US Economy, US House of representatives, US Infrastructure, US Politics, US recession, US Senate, world economy on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House passes the granduosly named American recovery and reinvestment plan, and, it is irrelevant at this point. For this plan is not far sighted enough nor does it change the game in any way. But don’t blame the president for this, for he was just working with in the boundaries of consitution. Fact is this [...]
Stock market is falling. No reason to panic and pass Paulson’s plan with out change.
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Legislation, Stockmarket, tagged Financial Markets, Paulson's plan, stock markets, US Economy, world economy on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dow is currently about a 150 points down. Over the next couple of days there may again be volatile swings in stock market. Such volatility may be used to pressure congress to pass paulson’s plan. Volatility in the stock market is natural in such troubled times and should not cause a panic among the congressional [...]
Its panic time at the stock market but just like any panic attack, this will pass…
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Incidental-musing, Investment, Stockmarket, tagged Benjamin Graham, Financial Markets, stock markets on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today the Dow Jones fell by about 390 points and simultaneously crude oil went up by about $10 per barrel. As usual with the market analysts, we have some cookie cutter explanations. Jobs report showing a fifth straight month of losses is supposed to have triggered a wall street collapse, even though the actual fall [...]
Revenge of the nerds??? Nobel Lauretes discuss economy… hold your breath, on CNBC!!!!!
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Incidental-musing, Investment, Stockmarket, tagged CNBC, Edmund Phelps, Financial Markets, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laurete's, Robert Engle, Robert Shiller, stock markets, US Economy on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out these video’s on CNBC. Nobel Laureates in economics discuss US economy on CNBC, which despite being a business channel, never had this quality in its programming in years…
http://www.cnbc.com/id/24311464
http://www.cnbc.com/id/24313079
Check out all the videos. Great stuff. Generally speaking, i am not a huge fan of CNBC. I think they are just a bunch of cheerleaders [...]
Its darkest before dawn… Are we close to the bottom of the economic crisis?
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Investment, Stockmarket, tagged Bear Stearns, FED, Federal goverment, stock markets, US Economy on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
First and foremost, please treat all the opinions below as my personal analysis and do not take any action based on this.
Are we at the bottom of the economic crisis in the US? I believe we are close to being at the bottom. Calling the bottom being a question of judgement, there will not be [...]
Economy – The sound of shattered conventional wisdom
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Investment, Stockmarket, tagged commodity markets, Conventional wisdom, Credit card APR, Economic Conventional wisdom, FED Funds rate, Financial Markets, Gold, inflation rate, Oil, stock markets, US Economy on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Given the way most economic predictions are going awry, it is safe to say we are in unknown territory. Trodden though this path is, it pays to briefly examine things that went off the predicted course, since this will allow us to break away from conventional wisdom in charting the way ahead.
When stock market [...]
No Soap in the Restroom? Blame the mortgage crisis!!! So typical… and characteristic
Posted in Idiocies & Ironies, Incidental-musing, tagged Bank of America, Corporate cost cutting, Cost cutting drives, Mortgage crisis results, stock markets on January 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a funny story gleaned from nytimes. This may or may not be true, most likely, the bureaucracy in Bank of America did think it up but retracted once it was publicized. When i read this article, i remembered another incident quite some time back where we too faced shortage of soap in the [...]
