- Map: Show Me the TARP Money - ProPublica - Each marker represents the headquarters of a financial institution that expects or has already received money from the Treasury Department under the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). The size of each marker represents the amount of bailout money given to each institution. Click on the markers to see the institution’s name and amount it’s receiving.
Daily Links for December 1st
December 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
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Daily Links for November 30th
December 1st, 2008 · No Comments
- IBM Press room - 2008-11-25 IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years - United States - The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.
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Daily Links for November 25th
November 26th, 2008 · No Comments
- Is Obama Planning For Battle Against A Looming Depression, Not A Recession? - No doubt, Obama is smart to treat this crisis as potentially as bad as what the country experienced in the 1930s. He would be committing presidential malpractice if he under-treats the condition, and I'm thrilled that Obama picked a professor from my alma mater (Berkeley) to serve as his chief economist. But the noticeable shift in Obama's discussions about our economic situation, along with hints that he'll be putting on the backburner any tax cut rollbacks or efforts to tackle the deficit, are quite revealing.
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Daily Links for November 21st
November 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
- Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one. - The Boston Globe - Today, however, whatever a depression would look like, that's not it. We are separated from the 1930s by decades of profound economic, technological, and political change, and a modern landscape of scarcity would reflect that. What, then, would we see instead? And how would we even know a depression had started? It's not a topic that professional observers of the economy study much. And there's no single answer, because there's no one way a depression might unfold. But it's nonetheless an important question to consider - there's no way to make informed decisions about the present without understanding, in some detail, the worst-case scenario about the future.
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Daily Links for November 19th
November 20th, 2008 · No Comments
- A Sea of Unwanted Imports - NYTimes.com - And for the first time, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Nissan have each asked to lease space from the port for these orphan vehicles. They are turning dozens of acres of the nation’s second-largest container port into a parking lot, creating a vivid picture of a paralyzed auto business and an economy in peril.
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Daily Links for November 16th
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments
- Cartype : Carbon Motors - Carbon Motors Corporation is a new American automaker that is developing and will manufacture, distribute, and service the Carbon E7, the world's first purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle.
- Voter turnout didn’t set record: Democrats’ passion wasn’t matched by GOP - Turnout in last week's election increased from four years ago but fell far short of some forecasts largely because many Republican voters either stayed home or left blank the presidential section of their ballots.
In states won by President-elect Barack Obama, turnout was more than five percentage points higher than in states won by Republican John McCain, according to a Globe analysis of data compiled by a pair of researchers who study voting patterns in US elections.
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Daily Links for November 15th
November 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
- THE SHALLOWEST GENERATION - The Baby Boom Generation will never be mistaken for the Greatest Generation that survived the Great Depression and defeated evil in a World War that killed 72 million people. I hate to tell you Boomers, but putting a yellow ribbon on the back of your $50,000 SUV is not sacrifice. Our claim to fame is living way beyond our means for the last three decades, to the point where we have virtually bankrupted our capitalist system. Baby Boomers have been occupying the White House for the last sixteen years. The majority of Congress is Baby Boomers. The CEOs and top executives of Wall Street firms are Baby Boomers. The media is dominated by Baby Boom executives and on-air stars. We have no one to blame but ourselves for the current predicament. Blaming Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson for our dire situation is a cop out. Baby Boomers had the time, power, and ability to change our course. We have chosen to leave the heavy lifting to future generations in order to live the good life today.
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Daily Links for November 12th
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments
- Ironic Sans: At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - Other 1600 Pennsylvania Avenues throughout the United States.
- Where Homes Are Worth Less Than the Mortgage - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - In 43 states, First American CoreLogic was able to analyze data for all homes with mortgages. Using estimates of current property values, the analysis shows that many homeowners owe more on their mortgages than the homes are now worth, a condition known as having negative equity. Move the cursor over a state to see the percentage of mortgaged homes with negative equity. Also shown is a statewide estimate for the total value of mortgaged homes compared to the total mortgage debt on those homes; the higher that number, the more indebted a state's homeowners are in relation to the value of their property.
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