Today’s podcast focuses on the fallout over the level of fraud in the $8,000 tax credit for new home-buyers on Capitol Hill, and whether it will prevent Congress from extending the credit program for another year.
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Insider Trading and More Bonus Blowback
October 19, 2009 – 10:21 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the arrests of Galleon hedge fund partner Raj Rajaratnam and the coming Federal crackdown on insider trading, as well as David Axelrod’s comments this weekend about the bonus culture of Wall Street.
Capitalism and Culture: The War on Wall Street
October 16, 2009 – 8:25 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast covers the debate over capitalism in America, particularly focusing on AEI President Arthur Brooks’ thesis about the way voters perceive the crisis and what it means for capitalism’s future.
Health Care Fallout: Insurers, Unions Turn on Bill
October 15, 2009 – 6:31 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the Senate Finance Committee’s passage of the Chairman’s Mark, the fallout for the insurance industry, and the broader ramifications for the marketplace.
Will Wall Street Be Punished For Historically High Bonuses?
October 14, 2009 – 9:28 am
Today’s podcast focuses on the historically high levels of Wall Street pay and the potential response from Washington, as well as a ballsy request from Saudi Arabia in advance of the Copenhagen climate change meetings.
The Housing Market’s False Rebound
October 13, 2009 – 11:20 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the potential for rebound in the housing market, the out of whack expectations of new home owners, and whether or not we’re experiencing the new normal.
Inflation, the Dollar, and a Recession Double Dip
October 12, 2009 – 7:36 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the ramifications of higher interest rates, the need to protect the dollar, and the possibility of a double dip recession.
Health Care, the CBO, and Punishing Success
October 8, 2009 – 8:36 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the latest news from Washington about health care reform — the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s Chairman’s Mark gives the Senate the cover they need to pass a plan, one that proves powerful disincentives for success.
Nancy Pelosi’s Big New Value Added Tax
October 7, 2009 – 8:54 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the rising price of gold and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support in an interview with Charlie Rose for a new value added tax — because it will “even the playing field”? We don’t know what that means either.
Gold For Oil and Son of Cash For Clunkers
October 6, 2009 – 9:11 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the oft-reported backroom dealings of the Gulf states on oil and the dollar, and the more realistic possibility of a second bailout for the auto industry.
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- Wired Magazine, Conde Nast Scoop Breitbart, the ‘Bigs’ — HUD next O’Keefe Video Sting Target
- China Threatens Google
- JP Morgan & Citigroup Complicit in Death of Lehman
- Pelosi Goes Over Bill With Caucus, Plans Vote Next Week
- Obama Delays Asia Trip to Hammer Through Health Care Bill
- What Biden Told Netanyahu Behind Closed Doors
- Dems Consider Drastic Moves to Pass Health Bill
- New York Assemblyman Wants to Ban Use of Salt in Restaurants
- China Takes a Page from MSNBC
- I’m Still for Hope and Change Guys, Seriously!
MARKETS & POLICY
- Coffee and Markets: Financial Regulation and Obamacare
- Healthcare Reform: the Arithmetic Doesn’t Work
- Watch for an upside surprise on Treasury notes today (Updated)
- Destroy the City to Save It
- How Much Credit Should We Have in the World?
- Bart Stupak and Russian Opera
- Finance Wasn’t Designed for the Modern World
- The Unemployment Numbers and America’s Jobs Problem
- The End of Easy Fixes
- Standard Oil Redux
The WHIP
- Endgame: Pelosi’s Health Care Gamble
- David Brooks Applies For a Job
- Obamacare’s Two Americas
- How Do You Whip Nonexistent Legislation?
- Cheney in Exile
- How Mitt Romney Blew It (Again)
- Another Democrat Goes Down: Massa to Retire
- Obama’s Four GOP Ideas Myth
- Is Sue Lowden the Next John Thune?
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- Biden in Israel
- Love and Respect
- Putinjugend Website Publishes North Korean Anti-American Propaganda Paintings
- Three Reasonable Questions on Climate Change
- Fisking Foreign Policy’s Guide to Climate Skeptics
- Brennan gets it wrong at NYU
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- The Future Is Today: China Gets A Preview of Girl-lessness in Guangdong
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- “. . . he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed . . .”
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- “But Republicans Used Reconciliation Too!”
- John Quiggin Is Very Clever
- Not Just A Dictator . . .
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- The Very Unpopular President
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