Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications
It was nice last week to be included as a signer of a letter organized by Chris Whalento the Secretary of the Treasury, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Chairmen of the SEC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, and the Acting Director of the FHFA about improving the mortgage market. You can read the letter several places [...]
UPDATE: CROP Walk web donations are closed but you can designate gifts (or make general donations) via the DonateNow or JustGive buttons on the RUMC home page. First, go to the Ramona United Methodist Church CROP Hunger Walk page. Donate a few dollars. A half dozen of the folks with whom I go to church [...]
Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government
This is a nice reminder of the power of an honest, transparent, humble, and well-reasoned understanding of liberty.
Saturday’s Barron’s had a pithy review of Ken Aulettta’s Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.To sum it up, reviewer Mark Veverka says, “Google’s science exposes the inefficiency of traditional advertising and threatens to remove middlemen.” In other words, as went record labels and travel agents, so goes my first chosen profession, journalism. The inefficiency of
Institutional Risk Analyst co-founder Chris Whalen writes in the new edition of his newsletter: Until we break the Alliance of Convenience between the Congress, the Fed and the large, TBTF (too big to fail) banks and force our public officials to embrace core American values regarding transparency, insolvency and accountability, we will not in my [...]
Dealbook on the New York Times for the past several days has published a series of articles on the financial crisis and the way forward. It’s a modern media approach to exploring and perhaps developing economic policy. Say what you will about Web 2.0 and its effect on traditional media. If the Gray Lady can [...]