Zogby: Obama’s National Lead 14%

Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. The poll showed Obama with a 14-point edge over Clinton, 52 percent to 38 percent, after being in a statistical tie with the New York [...]

12 changes in Media

We Media will kick off next week in Miami.  I will be on a panel with the AP folks and others talking about the new relationship between traditional journalists and emerging non-professionals.  I will also be talking about our product plans for the next 6 months and how I think they will change the business.  [...]

Obama wins Wis. for 9th straight triumph

Emphasis is mine.

In a race growing increasingly negative, Obama cut deeply into Clinton’s political bedrock in Wisconsin, splitting the support of white women almost evenly with her. According to polling place interviews, he also ran well among working class voters in the blue collar battleground that was prelude to primaries in [...]

Is Lawrence Lessig running for Congress?

I’ve met Lessig a few times.  He’d have my vote.

I recently wrote a post praising Lawrence Lessig, and it looks as though he is taking the idea of running for Congress very seriously. He took a courtly, gentlemanly, and utterly devastating shot against Jackie Speier, the leading candidate, that strongly suggests [...]

Vallejo California On Brink Of Bankruptcy

Municipal bonds have always been a very safe (and often tax-free) form of investment for those who have the capital requirements to participate in them.  Now Vallejo has issued an ominous warning to those like Warren Buffet who have been their champion:

For 15 years the city council has been putting Band-Aids [...]

10-15 Million Mortgage Defaults will leading to systematic banking crisis

Earlier today The Financial Times posted a story about the risk of the ‘Mother of all Meltdowns’.  The story was inspired by the analysis of NYU’s Nouriel Roubini.  Within 2 hours the story was one of Yahoo’s most popular.  This is what Roubini is now blogging…

The current housing recession, subprime meltdown [...]