Economy Archive

• 3January 18, 2010

  Security of some banks in name alone?

  If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The FDIC publishes a list...
• 5November 13, 2009

  Rural outsourcing and bad reporting by the New York Times

  One wouldn’t expect this ill-written an article from the New York Times.  In how many ways can  you catalogue the...
• 2November 12, 2009

  The cycle of women in the workforce

  The two headlines in today’s Wall Street Journal said it all.  They brought out the history of women in the...
• 32March 17, 2009

  Don't blame AIG for the bonus payouts

  I don’t understand why so many people who should know better are demanding that AIG stop paying out $165 million...
• 6February 10, 2009

  Vanishing Economic Plans

  If someone had spent hours writing it as a comedy script, they couldn’t have done better.  Not that it is...
• 20October 1, 2008

  Bailout bill and wooden arrows

  Okay, so the Senate has just passed the bailout bill Economic Rescue Plan 74-25.? The bill is a 451 page...
• 9September 29, 2008

  A failed bailout and the after effects

  The gnawing sensation I feel in the pit of my stomach is not hunger, I know. It’s dread –...
• 15September 20, 2008

  How the financial crisis affects you and me

  After reading the comments on my previous post, I realized that many readers don’t seem to fully understand the broader...
• 64September 17, 2008

  In defense of those on the Street

  Park Place Station, New York City. It was late in the evening and I was returning from work. As I rushed...
• 16June 23, 2008

  Movies in a recession

  Do people spend more on movies when there is a recession? If they do, why is it so? The New York...