Business & Money

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 more than 50

…

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 financial markets, like a sports channel. It assumes people …

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 review in the …

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 the time than mortgages and …

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 to find the new channel that’s going to bring …

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 “for …

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 doing-opinion heavy quick hits (it can 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 …

The Associated Press has a story about about a man stopped trying to leave Italy with a $500 million check. It’s not clear exactly what kind of check; the implication is that it’s a cashier’s check, or the Italian equivalent. And the other implication is that it’s real. Says the Associated Press story:

The man sought to enter

…