Posts Tagged ‘finance’

Our reliance on services without a strong financial model

In the past couple of days there have been many articles published about the introduction of Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect to multiple services such as Twitter and Discuss.  Even now many people are enabling both the Facebook and Google services on their weblogs and finding that folks are using their Google and Facebook [...]

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Pelosi speaks out for the Democrats

Today Nancy Pelosi made a bold statement about the 700 billion dollars requested by the current administration to rescue the financial markets:

Democrats believe a responsible solution should include independent oversight, protections for homeowners and constraints on excessive executive compensation.
[From The Page - by Mark Halperin - TIME]

Unfortunately, I couldn’t agree less. Now is not the [...]

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Financial Depression, can’t we take drugs for that?

What a week for the financial markets! Wow, what started the week as a minor correction ended the week with the news media calling Friday’s government bailout the equivalent of the FDR “New Deal” for 2008. I heard financial analysts saying things like “we avoided the second Great Depression!”.
Whoa, are we really in that much [...]

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