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December 6, 2010
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (By Way of Brooklyn) Lets It Rip
Those looking for the passion missing from the Democratic and White House response to the demands of the GOP/Wall Street/Murdoch media coalition, should tune in to the one man rebel band now playing in Washington named Bernie Sanders. The 69-year-old independent senator from Vermont let loose ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2010
Barack Obama Wants to Freeze Pay for Federal Workers for the Next Two Years
In what will surely generate an outcry among federal civilian workers, Obama-haters, and people who live to dissent around the nation, President Obama has proposed a wage freeze for certain federal employees for the next two years. According to the White House, this move (which requires congr ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2010
Dr. Doom ("Nouriel Roubini"): 40% Chance of "Renewed Recession" for American Economy Is
Nouriel Roubini -- who's basically living like a rap star after screaming about how utterly fucked the American economy was before it happened, watching it happen, and telling everyone how he told them so -- just made a headline tonight when he put the chances of a "renewed recession" for Ame ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 4, 2010
JONESING FOR JONSI
Think Sigur Rós with less parentheses
Blogs
May 3, 2010
Mike Bloomberg Gets Mixed Report Card on Massive Spending
Mike Bloomberg met Diana Taylor at a luncheon of the Citizens Budget Commission, a business group known for its salty independence and telling assessments of city budgets. Diana was a trustee, and Bloomberg became a fan of the group almost as quickly as he became Diana's number one fan, all w ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Manufacturing Surges in New York; New Jobless Claims Up
The glory days of New York manufacturing may be over, but it's been coming back at a surprising rate. While manufacturing nationally was down a tenth of a point last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's general economic index, which measures production in the state, has risen from 4 ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2009
Ben Bernanke Named Time Man of the Year, in Honor of Achievements TBD
"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 17, 2009
The Job, aka The Sound of the Trumpets
"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>
News
October 27, 2009
We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?
"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2009
City Says It Paid Former Queens Beep and Lobbyist for "Outreach," Not Lobbying
Way back in October, the Willets Point Industry and Realty Association, a group strenuously opposed to the city's attempt to throw their businesses out of Willets Point so it could be redeveloped, accused former Queens borough president Claire Shulman of being an unregistered lobbyist for the Bloomb ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2009
New Yorkers Emerge From Recession Foxholes, Return to Restaurants
SqueakyMarmot/flickrAn article in Crain's New York reports that despite ongoing economic woes, many restaurants throughout the city are reporting a growth in business. Though summer traditionally means slower sales, June and July have brought signs of economic recovery as restaurants have reporte ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 28, 2009
BULLISH THEATER
Theater for a New City's annual touring musical
Blogs
June 29, 2009
What's Happening This Week--Cheese to the Rescue & Punch School
As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Meet Mateo Kehler of The Cellars at Jasper Hill Murray's Cheese Shop July 1, 6:30-8 p.m. Mateo Kehler believes cheese is the future. Having created at least fiv ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 17, 2009
LAUGH LINES
Yuck it up with Murray Hill
Blogs
June 1, 2009
GM in Chapter 11; Plants to Close, Government to Spend Billions
The Smart Asset celebrates the GM bankruptcy: "We will own about 70 percent of an enfeebled GM, and we're still going to be bailing it out." It is hard to believe that General Motors was once literally a pillar of the American economy: according to a fascinating story in Automotive News, in its glor ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2009
Ex-Rudy Aide Takes the Fifth
Good time Charlie Millard, the former Giuliani economic development chief, went mum yesterday before a Senate committee investigating the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. which Millard headed until earlier this year.Millard invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself when call ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2009
Obama Asks Congress for Power to Regulate Derivatives
We're pleased to see the Obama Administration has asked for new powers to regulate the trading of derivatives -- those "financial instruments" by means of which, in the good old days, big banks shuttled bundles of debt back and forth, creating the illusion of economic health until it all went to shi ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2009
Quote of the Day: Paul Krugman
"What should change? What lessons should we be learning? The first is, obviously, that finance is something to be carefully regulated. We went from a banking system that served our needs and did so while consuming about four percent of the gross domestic product, and paying average wages... to a fin ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2009
Trillion-Plus Fed Investment Raises Dow About 90 Points
The Street sorta liked the Federal Reserve's idea to invest over $1,000,000,000,000 of your money into your economy, which sounds like a wash but still makes us feel as if we've been gypped. $300 billion will go to buy T-bonds -- which news quickly drove demand up and yields down. The Fed will also ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2009
Chocolate as International Comfort Food
Despite the global economic downturn, 2008 saw record sales of Swiss chocolate. [BBC News]Meanwhile, in the fourth quarter or 2008, U.S. consumer spending on food dropped 3.7%, the steepest decline in the 62 years the Commerce Department has been compiling such data.[WSJ]The federal government has o ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2009
As Economy Sinks, Obama Invites Us to "House Meetings"
Lots of economic news today: talking to Matt Lauer, with whom he had previously joked about the Super Bowl and Jessica Simpson' "weight battle," President Obama says that more banks are likely to fail. But, as we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Obama's permanent-campaign arm is calling for "e ... More >>
News
January 28, 2009
What Cooked the World's Economy?
It wasn't your overdue mortgage.
Blogs
January 21, 2009
Live from D.C.: Scenes from the Post-Inauguration
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
November 25, 2008
Credit Crisis: The Story So Far
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
November 25, 2008
Russian Prof: U.S. Finished, Russia to Mop Up
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2008
Bernanke supposedly panicky? What else is new.
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2008
Financial Industry Rushes to Screw Us More Before Obama Gets In
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2008
America is Back!
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2008
Wicked Finds a Way To Make More Money
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2008
Daily Flog: California, here we go; crisis also sweeps through Asia
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2008
An unprecedented situation
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2008
Krauts Sour on Wall Street Bailout
photo by Whitney Dafoe After the big speech hordes, and we mean hordes, of people shuffled toward and into the Metro station nearest the National Mall. We heard one woman declare, exasperated to non-partisanship, "I don't care who is president!" Another woman said she'd been stuck in the crowd for ... More >>
Columns
September 23, 2008
The Backstory of the Financial Collapse
Call it Gall Street. How else to describe an industry that applauds nearly $500 million in bonuses for executives taking an entire economy down with them?
Voice Choices
September 23, 2008
Green Fields
Call it Gall Street. How else to describe an industry that applauds nearly $500 million in bonuses for executives taking an entire economy down with them?
Blogs
September 18, 2008
Daily Flog: The Dow of panic; stocks and bondage; U.S. snatches gold
Call it Gall Street. How else to describe an industry that applauds nearly $500 million in bonuses for executives taking an entire economy down with them?
Blogs
September 15, 2008
Daily Flog: Wall Street's broken brokers go for broke; McCain's lie is buried by meltdown news
Call it Gall Street. How else to describe an industry that applauds nearly $500 million in bonuses for executives taking an entire economy down with them?
Blogs
September 9, 2008
Daily Flog: 'No one convicted!'; nationwide search for Obama's mojo; McCain wallows in blood of Christ
Call it Gall Street. How else to describe an industry that applauds nearly $500 million in bonuses for executives taking an entire economy down with them?
News
August 5, 2008
Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie
How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
Blogs
July 22, 2008
Arab Government Bites Off a Big Chunk of G.E.
How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
Blogs
July 11, 2008
The All-Star Game As Economic Boon? Don't Believe the Hype
How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
Blogs
May 2, 2008
Going for Broke
How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
Blogs
March 20, 2008
The Housing Slump Even Hurt the Fed Chairman
How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
Blogs
September 20, 2007
Danger of a Pull-Out -- of the Dollar
How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis
News
October 18, 2005
What's the Deal With Ben Bernanke?
Bush’s pick to succeed Greenspan is a resident 'free thinker'
Blogs
April 22, 2005
Morning Report 4/22/05
The Wages of Sin Is Debt
Bush’s pick to succeed Greenspan is a resident 'free thinker'
Blogs
September 16, 2004
More Taxing News for Humans
Bush’s pick to succeed Greenspan is a resident 'free thinker'
Blogs
February 25, 2004
Math Destruction
Bush’s pick to succeed Greenspan is a resident 'free thinker'
Books
January 1, 2002
The Goldbug Variations
Bush’s pick to succeed Greenspan is a resident 'free thinker'
News
November 7, 2000
Nation
Bush’s pick to succeed Greenspan is a resident 'free thinker'
Film
April 11, 2000
The Feds Are Coming!
A Conspiracy So Vast
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