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  • Neither debt, nor whopping losses nor employee pensions will keep the Post Office from delivering the mail. Well, actually they might. The Postal…

  • We had an interesting discussion at our morning meeting about the relative nature of events — specifically, the timing of the natural disasters in…

  • Mar 2, 2010

    Morning Reading

    Good morning. Among this morning's items — remembering the lessons of the dot-com crash, Earth's economic model is broken, what drives media…

  • The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece about small Internet firms that have filed antitrust lawsuits against Google. It just so happens…

  • Bloomberg columnist John Dorfman is reviving a contest that gauges your ability to correctly predict economic conditions months from now. An…

  • This looks to be an important week for the fate of financial regulatory reform. A stand-alone Consumer Financial Protection Agency has virtually…

  • Mar 1, 2010

    Morning Reading

    Good morning. Hope you had a good weekend. A few questions to start the week: Can government get banks lending? What do we need health insurers…

  • The government-controlled mortgage financier, Freddie Mac, said today it would stop buying "interest-only" loans. How common-sensical of them. …

  • This week, two Senators introduced a bill that would reward foreign entrepreneurs for coming to this country and creating jobs. The Startup Visa…

  • I've been following an interesting story this week involving Citibank and a start-up company called Fabulis. It's a social networking site for gays…