How Much Blame To Throw At the CRA?

Some experts and some non-experts have pointed a finger at the Community Reinvestment Act as part of the reason behind the housing bubble bursting and setting off an economic crisis.  I afforded it due consideration, but when all is said and done holds minimal blame in the grand scheme.
The failures in government regulation undoubtedly played [...]

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Playing The Wrong Kind of Politics Dooms The Bailout Package

Question.  What kind of recipe do you get when you have a Congressional election year, a financial crisis, and misinformed voter anger?  A recipe for disaster.
And now our politicians in Washington are, for all intensive purposes, are sitting on their hands by voting down the $700B bailout package in the House today.  In response the [...]

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The Rolaid Bills

Buffalo sports fan are lovable losers.  We’re perpetual pessimists scorned by a history of failure.  Our expectations never fail to account for the worst possible outcome.  Every dramatic moment our teams have been a part of invariably end with us being on the short end of the stick.  “Wide Right” and “No Goal” are part [...]

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Breaking Down The First Presidential Debate: Lead Question #2 – Economic Policy

Rather then discussing how Barack Obama and John McCain presented themselves to the American public in their first presidential debate, an examination of the content of the debate is far more productive, in terms of mapping policy issues then impulse, surface impressions.  With that in mind, I will explore each leading question and give an [...]

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Reexamining The Presidential Debate Lead Question #1: The Bail Out Package

Following my initial examination of the Presidential Debate lead question #1 on the proposed bail out package, I came across an eye popping video on the ChenZhen blog comments section.  Considering that a large amount of talk was devoted to deregulation during the debate, I researched the subject prior to making my analysis.  I came [...]

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Breaking Down The First Presidential Debate: Lead Question #1 – The Bail Out Package

Rather then discussing how Barack Obama and John McCain presented themselves to the American public in their first presidential debate, an examination of the content of the debate is far more productive, in terms of mapping policy issues then impulse, surface impressions.  With that in mind, I will explore each leading question and give an [...]

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Impressions of the First Presidential Debate

I was expected a complete and utter lingual domination of John McCain at the hands of Barack Obama.  Surprisingly, thats not what I came away with after watching the debate.  My impressions are based soley on “appearance” i.e. who did and didn’t look like a mumbling, stumbling, bumbling fool.
From an informative perspective, it offered very [...]

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Telecommunication Companies Gouging Via Text Message

When Comcast announced it’s plan to begin instituting a bandwidth cap, the tech community was in general consensus that bandwidth limits was not consumer friendly, and sparked considerable outrage from some consumers.  But there’s something else that should infuriate you about your data much more then how much your allowed to use every month.  Namely, [...]

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Financial Risk Management: The Problem With Applying Statistical Models To A Random System

Having digested more then my fair share of reasons behind the market crash from television to radio to print to the blogosphere, I’ve been saturated by the common theme of corporate greed and corruption.  I don’t buy it as anything other then a compulsory and secondary component to a free market economy.  This is, of [...]

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McCain’s Perfect Storm

Prior to the collapse of Wall Street that began on September 15th, John McCain held a 2% point lead over Barack Obama according to a Gallup Poll.  A lead McCain has held to varying degrees following the Republic National Convention.  McCain’s convention bump was considerable and noted by a Gallup study:
While the increased vote share [...]

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