In this week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’ll talk about the fallout from a failed attempt by Senators Dodd and Corker to make new financial regulations bipartisan, the latest activity on the bond markets, and what’s next for Obamacare.
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The Unemployment Numbers and America’s Jobs Problem
March 5, 2010 – 10:26 am
In this week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’ll talk about the unemployment numbers released this morning and the debate about America’s jobs problem in the context of declines in education.
Live From Blair House
February 26, 2010 – 12:19 pm
In this week’s edition of Coffee and Markets, we’re recording on-site from the president’s Blair House summit by the White House, and we’re talking about the bond market, the targeting of Toyota, and the future of health care reform.
Oscar Preview and the Big Films of 2010
February 10, 2010 – 11:29 am
So if you want to know who’s going to win an Oscar — whether you just love film, or if like me you’re a gambling addict trying to recover from betting the Over on the Super Bowl with desperate prop bets on stars of the screen — you should always turn to an expert. Cole Abaius of Film School Rejects is not just an expert, but a DOCTOR and an expert. He tells us what’s going to happen, and what films he’s excited about for 2010, in our latest podcast, brought to you by The New Ledger’s EDGE.
It’s Not About Him: America’s Decline is About a Lot More Than Obama
February 4, 2010 – 5:26 pm
Time for a Big Picture episode of the podcast: “We have never had, in the history of the world, periods of sustained economic prosperity and growth accompanied by a sustained decline in population. Today, every developed nation in the world is witnessing this decline.”
Paul Krugman and the Future of the Marketplace
January 22, 2010 – 1:54 am
In the wake of a stunning political result in Massachusetts, it’s time to assess the future Scott Brown dictates for the market, for the Democrats, and for the country. It’s the third week of January 2010, and here’s the latest edition of Coffee and Markets, a weekly podcast from The New Ledger on politics, policy and the marketplace with Francis Cianfrocca, brought to you by BigGovernment.com.
Books You Should Read: The End of Secularism
December 18, 2009 – 9:04 am
An interview with Hunter Baker, author of The End of Secularism: Do you think that communism’s force lives on in the less violent but still all-encompassing secularism of today — on issues like climate change and economic socialism? And second, do you think that those who strive against secularism today are on the losing side of history?
Too Big To Fail Reconsidered
December 17, 2009 – 10:26 am
Muscling through a rough cold, Francis shares his thoughts on an interesting piece on the Too Big to Fail concept in the latest issue of National Affairs on today’s edition of Coffee and Markets: “The errors laid bare by the financial crisis clearly call for regulatory reform. But in designing that reform, we should avoid the temptation to seek heavy-handed new approaches — and should instead look to the long-term success of the system of rules whose decay brought about the crisis.”
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DAILY READS
- 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
- Wired Magazine, Conde Nast Scoop Breitbart, the ‘Bigs’ — HUD next O’Keefe Video Sting Target
- China Threatens Google
MARKETS & POLICY
- 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
- How Much Credit Should We Have in the World?
The WHIP
- 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
- How Mitt Romney Blew It (Again)
- Another Democrat Goes Down: Massa to Retire
- Obama’s Four GOP Ideas Myth
HEGEMON
- 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
- The Scottish Islamist and British ‘racism’
CHEQUER BOARD
- Barbara Boxer Is In Trouble
- Scoring The Health Care Bill
- Could “Deem And Pass” Be Constitutionally Challenged?
- Tea Leaves
- What The Obama Administration Doesn’t Understand About The Middle East
- If Joe Biden Didn’t Exist, We Would Have To Invent Him
- Quote Of The Day
- Israeli Politics Made Simple
- The Illogic And Injustice Of Deem And Pass
- The Obama Administration: Absent From Asia
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