I feel positively ebullient compared to this guy. And what with Forbes talking about Somalia just south of Laredo, plus signs of the apocalypse spring up n out, well ( Read more... )

Blame Diesel:

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On a more serious note, the BSD meltdown on Wall Street continuesBeen slowly upgrading my Facebook site, but I'm not so taken with the site- the interface is stupidly clunky & the data they want is invasive in overt ways that most modern social sites have the skills and grace to avoid. I should just roll my own, I guess, to ( Read more... )

Well, of course they are a little late to the party, when it's announced that we are 'officially' in a recession (and have been for some time)- but that's the point really, because you can't really know until you have a lot of data over time collected, sorted, and analyzed. Labels like that are mainly for the history books- the burning question I ( Read more... )

Sp the parents did show up this time around, complete with two desserts, Willie Beans, but no smoked turkey as promised: the fella who makes 'em so well back there in east texas managed to deliver only one of several promised, and dad being dad gave that to his foreman, as had been promised. We found a last minute fresh turkey locally and made ( Read more... )

in retrospect...

Stay tuned for part two...

Everyone here is hacking n wheezing- allergies, we suspect, or really bad timing all around- we'll see. Overall, it's all good.

Wal-mart is actually good for something besides Chinese importsThe default credit swap market, for the moment, isn't quite so scary- a buncha credit swaps from good ol' Lehman Brothers came due over the weekend, and they more or less settled themselves without causing the sky to fall- in this day and age, that counts as a hopeful sign. The credit ( Read more... )

British humour style:

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One economist said that the credit swap markets are now merely catastrophic instead of apocalyptic- but that was before today:


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No one wants to be invested in an underperforming hedge fund right now -- and half of the hedge funds in America are underperforming. What happens when investors decide to take their money out tomorrow, as they're generally allowed to do on the first day of any quarter?

S'just like the rest of it- wait n see, je?

The money shot, from a post on Infectious Greed:

It's amazing how many people, including some on this blog, are totally misreading the situation ( Read more... )

So here it is, the financial crisis I've been grousing about for years now, egged on (more liked pushed downhill along greased rails) by the blatant malfeasance of neocon Republicans and venally self-centered Democrats, all merrily fiddling away at one another as the Empire burns away to ashes. No matter how bad I thought it might get, it never ( Read more... )