- House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street. Here's a New York Times book review. Tyler Cowen is convinced it's a must-read for understanding the financial crisis.
- When will housing bottom? "I firmly believe we will not find a bottom on the economy until we find a bottom on housing. From this data, that bottom is still a long way off, as in 3-5+ years off, and it is a lot lower than most have predicted. That is far worse than this doom-and-gloomer was thinking. We can only hope Robert Shiller is wrong, but unfortunately this is one guy who knows what he is talking about on real estate." Unfortunately, I agree. Richard Florida does too.
- Why you shouldn't keep a mortgage just for the tax deduction.
- Netbooks to become the new OS battleground?
- Older fathers linked to lower I.Q. scores.
- "A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation... for having two unrelated men in her house."
- A coat that doubles as a backpack and triples as a tent.
- The happiest states of America.
- What is a depression?
- Why the Authors Guild is off-base about the Kindle 2.
- The secret of longevity: Optimism. Something else for pessimists to be down about?
- 5 resaons renting still beats buying. Something I've been saying for years -- long before the housing crisis.
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