It’s time for your weekly dose of markets and politics with Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your new home for Conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition, we hash out what’s happening in Greece and the global markets, President Obama’s broken promises on taxes, and what lies ahead for the big entitlement bomb.
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Matt Taibbi and John Carney on Naked Short Selling
October 2, 2009 – 1:33 pm
There’s been a lot of controversy about a practice called “naked short selling.” In normal short-selling, a trader who expects prices to fall will borrow shares of stock and immediately sell them. He must buy shares at some point in the future to give back to the person who lent him the shares that he sold short.
Why Can’t Governments Borrow Forever?
September 29, 2009 – 6:30 am
Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the latest news from the markets, the reelection of Angela Merkel in Germany, a discussion on inflation and sucker’s rallies, and the question: why can’t the government just keep borrowing forever?
Volatility and the Markets: Constant Overreaction
August 20, 2009 – 9:32 am
Francis Cianfrocca joins Ben Domenech for the Thursday, August 20th edition of Coffee & Markets, a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace. Today’s podcast focuses on the marketplace’s rapid response, volatility and risk, and the new jobless numbers.
Changing Hobbyhorses In Midstream: On Paul Krugman’s Fallacies
August 12, 2009 – 8:51 am
Paul Krugman believes that no sparrow takes flight without government having helped it to flap its wings. His intelligence is matched only by his monomania.
Today’s Job Numbers and the Anniversary of the Financial Crisis
August 7, 2009 – 9:58 am
Today’s podcast concerns the anniversary of the beginning of the financial crisis and the job statistics released this morning: what they mean for the economy, what they mean politically, and whether they mean the current recession is finally coming to an end.
Attack of the Son of Stimulus
July 9, 2009 – 8:30 am
When people talk about “green shoots,” they’re really reacting to signs that the economy has stopped collapsing at such a fast rate, and is now falling more slowly. The end may possibly be in sight, but things may not start getting better for a long time. A second stimulus won’t change that.
Results From the TIPS Auction: How Can We Keep Borrowing So Much Money?
July 6, 2009 – 11:53 am
The big news in finance this week is from the US Treasury, which continues to borrow huge sums to finance its ongoing fiscal deficits, and today’s TIPS auction.
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- As Sparks Fly, Democrats Close in On 216 for Health Care
- Stupak Abortion Language to be Added as “Tie Bar” to House Bill
- Bush, Obama, and the Intellectuals
- Health Bill Has Democrats Scrambling to Find More Votes
- Conan and Fox in Talks for Late Night Return
- Take Your Hands Off My Pork
- The Final Eleven
- Health Care: The Anti-Jobs Bill?
- Dodd’s Financial Rules Package Would Result in More Fed Muscle
- Credit Agency Warns U.S. and Others of Risk to Top Rating
MARKETS & POLICY
- Google Abandons the China Market
- Paul Krugman, Shadow Treasury Secretary, Misreads China
- Krugman’s War on China
- Following the Money on the Deficit
- Lesson From Moody’s: Rewrite the Social Contract
- Justice and the Prosecution of Lehman Execs
- 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
The WHIP
- Eleventh Hour Negotiations on Health Care
- Lest It Should Unman Me
- Obamacare’s End
- HCR Roundup: Slaughter Strategy Fallout
- How Obamacare Will Reshape the Workforce
- 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
HEGEMON
- Obama’s Israel Crisis
- Borderland: The Failure of the Virtual Fence
- 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
- Iran’s Big Punch – A Nuclear Test?
- The moral bankruptcy of Amnesty International
CHEQUER BOARD
- Douglas Holtz-Eakin Scores The Health Care Reform Bill
- Remember That Promise About Increased Government Transparency?
- Paul Ryan Is Too Smart For Democrats
- Guess Who Is Not A Popular President
- Health Care, Health Care, Health Care
- Charles Cooper Asks If There Still Is A Center
- Don’t Know Much About The Middle East
- Don’t Know Much About Education
- How At Least One Democrat Thinks Congress Works
- “Deem And Pass” Violates The Constitution
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