Meta
Categories
- accounting
- Announcements
- architecture
- art
- auctions
- bailouts
- banking
- bankruptcy
- ben stein watch
- blogonomics
- bonds and loans
- charts
- china
- cities
- climate change
- commercial property
- commodities
- consumers
- consumption
- corporatespeak
- credit ratings
- crime
- Culture
- Davos 2008
- Davos 2009
- defenestrations
- demographics
- derivatives
- design
- development
- drugs
- Econoblog
- economics
- education
- emerging markets
- employment
- energy
- entitlements
- eschatology
- euro
- facial hair
- fashion
- Film
- Finance
- fiscal and monetary policy
- food
- foreign exchange
- fraud
- gambling
- geopolitics
- governance
- healthcare
- hedge funds
- holidays
- housing
- humor
- Humour
- iceland
- IMF
- immigration
- infrastructure
- insurance
- intellectual property
- investing
- journalism
- labor
- language
- law
- leadership
- leaks
- M&A
- Media
- milken 2008
- Not economics
- pay
- personal finance
- philanthropy
- pirates
- Politics
- Portfolio
- prediction markets
- private banking
- private equity
- privatization
- productivity
- publishing
- race
- rants
- regulation
- remainders
- research
- Restaurants
- Rhian in Antarctica
- risk
- satire
- science
- shareholder activism
- sovereign debt
- sports
- statistics
- stocks
- taxes
- technocrats
- technology
- trade
- travel
- Uncategorized
- water
- wealth
- world bank
Archives
- April 2011
- August 2010
- June 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- September 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- February 2004
- January 2004
- December 2003
- November 2003
- October 2003
- September 2003
- August 2003
- July 2003
- June 2003
- May 2003
- April 2003
- March 2003
- February 2003
- January 2003
- December 2002
- November 2002
- October 2002
- September 2002
- August 2002
- July 2002
- June 2002
- May 2002
- March 2002
- February 2002
- January 2002
- December 2001
- November 2001
- October 2001
- September 2001
- August 2001
- July 2001
- June 2001
- May 2001
- April 2001
- March 2001
- February 2001
- January 2001
- December 2000
- September 2000
- July 2000
- March 2000
- July 1999
Category Archives: Econoblog
Email from experts
I got an email from one Ed Grebeck this morning, complaining about a post of mine on the subject of CDOs. It started like this: Felix, I teach “Credit Default Swaps 101″ at NYU, a strategist in the global debt … Continue reading
Posted in Econoblog
32 Comments
The Parallel Universe of Leadership Events
(Cross-posted from Market Movers) The World Business Forum is a two-day event; I only made the second afternoon. But even that was enough to almost make my head explode. I knew in theory that there’s an almost insatiable appetite for … Continue reading
RSS update
Lots of problems with the felixsalmon.com RSS feeds right now. To be sure of getting all of my Market Movers posts, Portfolio’s RSS feed for them is http://feeds.portfolio.com/portfolio/marketmovers?format=xml. It doesn’t include any felixsalmon.com content, but given the frequency of posting … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Econoblog, Not economics
Leave a comment
Is there a word for this?
It happens at Amazon, it happens at my local grocery store (sorry about the colour — it’s a cellphone pic), and it happens every day all over the world. But is there a name for it?
Posted in Econoblog, Not economics
Leave a comment
Where I blog
I’ve found out of late that not everybody reads my website through RSS, and there are actually people who don’t know that the reason I’m barely blogging here is that I’m blogging as much as ten times per day over … Continue reading
Posted in Econoblog
Leave a comment
Market Movers
It’s live! Up until now, I’ve been crossposting to felixsalmon.com, but now that portfolio.com has finally been unveiled to the world, you’ll have to go there to read most of my finance blogs. You can always get there by going … Continue reading
Posted in Econoblog
3 Comments
When Free Isn’t Good
Anil Dash has a wonderful piece of contrarian thinking up on his blog — it’s actually a week old, but it’s really timeless. A little while ago, my friend Michael Sippey, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing the other … Continue reading
FS vs GS in the ES
The only thing better than writing blog entries about how Goldman Sachs should be taken private? Having a journalist from the London Evening Standard phone up a Goldman flack and ask for a response. Genius.
Posted in Econoblog
Leave a comment
Vincent Price for Citigroup CEO?
The New York Post has a wonderfully gossipy piece by Paul Tharp today on who might take over at Citigroup if and when Chuck Prince gets the boot. Tharp concentrates on the fight between Vikram Pandit and Robert Druskin, which … Continue reading
Posted in Econoblog
Leave a comment
Wolfowitz Must Go
L’affair Wolfowitz has been trickling out for some time now, but today I think it finally reached the point at which Paul Wolfowitz can quite clearly no longer lead the World Bank effectively. When you read the report of the … Continue reading
Posted in Econoblog
3 Comments