Palin gets booed in Philly

Nice…notice the lack of jersey since she was caught rocking the Rangers gear yesterday? Also, sorry for the poor audio quality, my TV tuner has been wonky lately. I assure you the boos were even stronger than you hear in this video.

Source: digg.com via mtippett [...]

Some more maverick thinking

Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market is a book by James K. Glassman and Kevin A. Hassett. It was published in 1999, shortly before the dot-com bubble burst, and predicted that the Dow Jones Index would rise to 36000 within a few [...]

McCain attack ads inspire violent anti-Obama rhetoric with GOP supporters

Joe Biden warned John McCain that his rhetoric about Obama being associated with a supposed terrorist was dangerous and it seems Biden was right.   The mood of the hard core right in the US is becoming shrill and unsettling.

With McCain passing up the opportunity to level any tough personal shots in [...]

NYC National Debt Clock runs out of digits

Your media has failed you in yet another new and innovative way…

NEW YORK - In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.
As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times [...]

McCain Calls Americans ‘My Fellow Prisoners’

This really is odd.  There are times when Freudian slips are just too revealing.  What does he have in mind for us?

McCain Calls Americans ‘My Fellow Prisoners’

Source: youtube.com via mtippett

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Tales from the Near Future: Mike Walsh

I’m in Copenhagen for New Media Days listening to Mike Walsh.  Here are my notes as he delivers his presentation.
Predictions about the future assume our attitudes stay the same.
The future often comes out of nowhere.
The low res revolution is happening on Youtube.
Behavioural change is important.
The new network is the ‘audience network’.

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Asia has a young [...]

Lehman CEO Punched at Gym

The heads of these big banks are becoming targets.  In this case it was a Lehman employee.

While former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was testifying before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, CNBC reported he had been punched in the face at the Lehman Brothers gym after it was announced the firm [...]

Nikkei plunges 9.4 percent, biggest one-day fall since ‘87

Today it is Asia’s turn to get battered in the markets. 

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Nikkei average plunged 9.4 percent on Wednesday, its biggest one-day drop since the 1987 stock market crash, as fear spread of a global recession, fueled by expectations of a slide in profits at Toyota Motor [...]

Site shines light on McCain’s involvement in current financial crisis

A website that has been set up to illustrate John McCain’s involvement in the S&L crisis has been getting a lot of attention lately.  It’s worth a watch.

The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain’s attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger [...]

Roubini: The Risk of the Mother of All Bank Runs

Nouriel Roubini - the man who anticipated the current financial meltdown - is worried:

Yesterday Thursday a senior market practitioner in a major financial institution wrote to me the following:
Situation Report: So far as I can tell by working the telephones this morning:

LIBOR bid only, no offer. [...]