Archive for March, 2010

  • The Modern Day Financial Story of Passover
    Posted by on March 30th, 2010 at 5:11 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Jewish readers will already be familiar with the Passover Story – that of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt.  For those unfamiliar, here’s [...]

  • Home Improvement – KD Tackles Masonry
    Posted by on March 24th, 2010 at 4:24 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits So our basement has an old chimney base that’s perfect for a wine cellar.  The base is a series of brick walls [...]

  • Tweet Tweet! KidDynamiteBlog is Now on Twitter
    Posted by on March 23rd, 2010 at 9:04 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Ok – so a bunch of people have asked me why I’m not on Twitter.  Well, here you go – KidDynamiteBlog is [...]

  • Homeowner Bailouts? Look Again – It’s a Bank Bailout
    Posted by on March 23rd, 2010 at 2:44 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Louise Story has an article in the NY Times today about pending “homeowner bailouts.” “Arizona is one of five states that, with [...]

  • Greece: Oh the Irony
    Posted by on March 23rd, 2010 at 1:27 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Via Zerohedge:  “We have officially moved from a Greek tragedy to a Greek surreal comedy. After nearly a month-long scapegoating campaign in [...]

  • Project Maple II
    Posted by on March 22nd, 2010 at 5:11 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Readers responded positively to my first Maple Report, so here’s an update: We boiled off another two batches of sap – last [...]

  • Bajungi Tilt – NYC Seat Hoggery
    Posted by on March 22nd, 2010 at 4:47 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits This is absurd. One recent night, Ryan David LaMont settled into the wary peace of a post-midnight journey on the No. 2 [...]

  • The Real Ben Folds on ChatRoulette
    Posted by on March 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Last week I posted the video of “Merton” doing piano improv on ChatRoulette. Merton looks suspiciously like Ben Folds, but Merton has [...]

  • Live Free or Die!
    Posted by on March 21st, 2010 at 6:53 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits When I moved to New Hampshire, my friends made comments like “let me know when you put a gun rack on your [...]

  • Weekend Links
    Posted by on March 21st, 2010 at 1:57 am, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits This NY Times piece from Robert Frank again had me checking my calendar to see if April Fool’s Day had snuck up [...]

  • Banking Mechanics – Take 3
    Posted by on March 20th, 2010 at 12:25 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Believe me – it’s not that I really enjoy talking about the mundane theoretical mechanics of the banking system -it’s just that [...]

  • More on Bank Reserves, and their Potential Meaninglessness
    Posted by on March 19th, 2010 at 12:29 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits My post about bank reserves generated a lot of discussion. Well, I guess it was really more of an anonymous commenter trying [...]

  • Enron… This HAS to Be a Sign
    Posted by on March 18th, 2010 at 9:02 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Enron – the play – is coming to Broadway in April.  Apparantly it’s been killing it in London for a while now, [...]

  • Reserves? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Reserves
    Posted by on March 18th, 2010 at 1:21 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits EconomicDisconnect pointed me toward a story last night from the Economic Collapse Blog regarding Ben Bernanke’s comments on the need (or lack [...]

  • Ponzi Never Dies: SLM
    Posted by on March 18th, 2010 at 12:33 am, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits This Bloomberg article about Sallie Mae is a gem: “SLM Corp., the largest U.S. student-loan company, raised $1.5 billion in the bond [...]

  • Sign of the Apocalypse – Dick Fuld – Say WHATTTT?
    Posted by on March 17th, 2010 at 3:05 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Again, when I read this story from Dealbreaker, the first thing I did was click through to make sure it wasn’t an [...]

  • Chat Roulette Piano Improv
    Posted by on March 17th, 2010 at 1:04 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits This guy “Merton” is great – he looks and sounds a lot like Ben Folds, but they swear it’s not Ben Folds. [...]

  • More Census Tidbits
    Posted by on March 17th, 2010 at 1:38 am, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits There are a few more interesting tidbits (which address some of the questions from my last post) on the Census home page, [...]

  • If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and No One Is Around To Hear it, Does it Make A Sound?
    Posted by on March 16th, 2010 at 12:38 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits More importantly: if a lender doesn’t foreclose on a delinquent borrower, and thus the non-forclosure isn’t counted in official foreclosure numbers, does [...]

  • Census Tilt
    Posted by on March 15th, 2010 at 7:12 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits We just got our Census form in the mail.  I was slightly tilted by the warning on the front of the envelope: [...]