CT Blue

My wife and I have taken to watching Countdown every night. I freely admit that I watch it mainly to have my views reinforced. It’s still a refreshing experience to watch anything on television that isn’t skewed to the right. I’m not necessarily blind to the shows defects, however. I’ve noticed, for instance, that the […]

I actually think this is something worth exploring, from the New York Times’ Andrew Sorkin: Maybe someone deserves a bonus. Like someone who sniffs out the next Bernie Madoff. Or jousts with tomorrow’s gonzo bankers. Or defuses the Next Big Crisis in whatever Next Big Thing is dreamed up by Wall Street. Someone, in short, […]

There has been a bit of a storm brewing in the reality based scientific community, Darwin division, since Ben Stein was named to be the commencement speaker at the University of Vermont. Stein was the front man for a film called Expelled, which was ostensibly about the victimization of Darwin doubting scientists, but which was, […]

Here we go again. Pro Publica reports that the next financial meltdown is coming to a community bank near you, particularly if you live in an area that has seen a lot of development in the past few years. …small banks are suffering from a wave of defaults on construction and development loans that could […]

Further proof, if any were needed, that something has to be done about the compensation system in corporate America. From a Times article about the collapse of Washington Mutual, we read that Washington’s aggressive foray into the world of sub-prime mortgages was spearheaded by a go-getter chief executive, Kerry Killinger, who created a corporate culture […]