Because this blog sometimes covers the business of social networking, it seems appropriate to share the two social networking love songs I stumbled across last week. (If you’ve already heard ‘em, move on. Nothing to hear here.) The first, from the formerly ubiquitous ze frank, is the charming and insanely catchy “A Social Network for [...]
Dave Liniger, the co-founder and chairman of real estate brokerage giant RE/MAX, stopped by Time Monday along with RE/MAX CEO Margaret Kelly. Dave did almost all the talking, so much so that I had trouble keeping up with him at times. None of what he said was stop-the-presses shocking, but Liniger tends to be more [...]
I wrote a column earlier this year about the incredible shrinking federal deficit. So it seems like I ought to mention that there are some early signs that it’s about to start growing again. From Bloomberg (via Econbrowser): Government auctions of bills, notes and bonds in the fiscal year that started this month may rise [...]
I’ve had Fox Business on all day, and I don’t think I’ll be able to stand leaving it on long enough to join Cody and Rebecca at Happy Hour, so here’s my take: It’s not bad at all, although I’m unclear on who the heck is gonna watch it. CNBC covers business, and in particular [...]
Occasional Curious Capitalist commenter Marcus has a documentary TV series, Not Quite Art, premiering Tuesday night at 10:00 on the ABC. No, not that ABC. This ABC. (The Australian one.) I know this because Marcus and I are Facebook friends and I’ve been getting all the updates, including a link this morning to this rave [...]
As you may have already noticed, I’m back after a week of leaving Mark Gimein in charge. It was fun watching this blog–which I’ve been writing for just over a year now–from the outside, and Mark’s eclectic choice of topics was a healthy reminder that there are more interesting things to write about most of [...]
So I was all excited about the launch of Fox Business Channel this morning. Actually, no, that’s not true: I’d forgotten all about it until I saw an e-mail this morning from an editor at Time.com asking me and/or Poniewozik to check it out. But I was at least interested when I turned the TV [...]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (there is no actual “Nobel Prize” in economics) today to Leonid Hurwicz of the University of Minnesota, Eric S. Maskin of the Institute for Advanced Study and Roger B. Myerson of the University of Chicago [...]
Thanks to Time.com and Justin’s lending me his space, I’ve had the chance to guest blog here for a week. In my last entry, I’d like to take a shot at some thoughts about blogging itself. A friend of mine who asked not to be named calls blogging “Journalist’s Crack.” Blogging, by which I mean [...]
For those who want to delve into the intricacies of subprime mortgage math, my item on subprime mortgages garnered some reaction, including an item from Felix Salmon at Portfolio.com seems to have taken up the challenge of proving that my view is nothing less than evil. Felix’s central objection is that most subprime loans were [...]
