Happy Anniversary !
ritholtz.com 9/15/2009 — While everyone is so focused on the anniversary of Lehman Brothers (9/15) and AIG (9/16), today is a different sort of anniversary: Its been exactly one year months since the single dumbest column ever published in The Washington Post appeared : Quit ...

Video: Good News, Bad News for Obama
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 7/31/2009 — U.S. News Chief White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh provides analysis on a positive for the president in a sea of trouble.

The Lehman Anniversary
forbes.com 9/17/2009 — This week we mark the first anniversary of one of the more monumental financial events in recent history--the collapse of Lehman Brothers . Below is a summary of what has changed in the past year and what has stayed the same, followed by three main ...

Asset Class Performance Since the 2008 Election
bespokeinvest.typepad.com 22 days ago — Earlier we highlighted historical market performance one-year after Presidential election days. Below we provide a chart of how various asset classes have performed since the 2008 election. As shown, the US Dollar has declined 10%, while the 10-Year ...

Election in Germany
fistfulofeuros.net 9/27/2009 — Well, I’m going to go way, way, way out on a limb and say that the grand coalition will continue after today’s German election. What do the rest of you think?

FT.com / In depth - Obama pledges reform on Lehman anniversary
ft.com 9/14/2009 — President Barack Obama will use this week’s anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse to pledge to drive through financial reforms in the face of opposition from banks, regulators and Congress. He will use a speech on Wall Street to say that his ...

Best and Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks Since Obama's Election Win
bespokeinvest.typepad.com 19 days ago — Interestingly, Ford Motor (F) has been the best performing S&P; 500 stock since the 2008 election. With all the troubles that the US auto industry has gone through over the past year, Ford has made it out alive and now appears to be getting stronger. ...

Happy Anniversary Wall Street
debtdeflation.com 29 days ago — If I was asked to nominate the wisest aphorism of all time, Mark Twain’s “History doesn’t repeat, but it sure does rhyme” would definitely be one of my top two candidates. On song, today Wall Street is replaying the 1930s, but to a slightly different ...

Election Results 2009
cbsnews.com 23 days ago — A Summary of Who Won and Lost on This Off-Year Election Night

Happy 80th Anniversary, 1929 Crash!
ritholtz.com 29 days ago — Has it only been 80 years? Gee, time really flies when you are accumulating debt at compound interest rates. On this inauspicious anniversary, lets look at some fun stuff: • 1927-1933 Chart of Pompous Prognosticators • Bear Market Comparisons, ...

Arizona's budget: Stumped — The Economist: Full print edition 22 days ago
An intra-Republican row EARLIER this year Republicans seemed to be in the ascendant in Arizona, the state of Barry Goldwater, even as they struggled in much of the country. Not only had they retained control in both houses of the state legislature, ...

Health reform: Now or never? — The Economist: Full print edition 22 days ago
Efforts to speed health legislation hit some snags WILL the health bill making its way through Congress reach Barack Obama’s desk before the end of the year? In May he insisted: “If we don’t get it done this year, we’re not ...

Elections in New Jersey and Virginia: Lessons from a double defeat — The Economist: Full print edition 22 days ago
Barack Obama will find it hard to take much comfort from this year’s election day CREIGH DEEDS is a farm boy turned country lawyer from the Alleghenies, in the south-west of Virginia. On a chilly night before this week’s governors’ ...

Barack Obama and the “mini mid-terms”: The change he didn't seek — The Economist: Full print edition 22 days ago
This week’s results carry warnings for both parties: but the Democrats—and their leader—should worry more SO WAS it a referendum or wasn’t it, and if so on whom? On November 3rd (see article) the Republicans trounced the ...

The war in Afghanistan: Last chance in Kabul — The Economist: Full print edition 22 days ago
The election was a disaster. Hamid Karzai must reform quickly if he wants to save his country, and himself THE election is over and it was a charade. A fortnight ago, Western leaders pushed Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, into a second ...