Some fun from the Daily Show. Link here if embed doesn’t load. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Make it Rain - Bank of America www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Vancouverage 2010 … Read More

Alana Semuels at the LA Times discusses her article today: Here is the story: Many borrowers in default stay put as lenders delay evictions Throughout the country, people continue to default on their home loans — but lenders have backed … Read More

Here is Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders. The following is an excerpt on housing (Buffett focuses on manufactured housing because Berkshire owns Clayton Homes): The [manufactured homes] industry is in shambles for two reasons, the first of which must … Read More

Scroll down for a summary of last week and a look ahread (or click here ). First, via NPR: The Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor The Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor holds that if a team from the old NFL … Read More

From Kenneth Harney in the LA Times: ‘Cash-in’ refis growing in popularity In Freddie Mac’s latest quarterly survey of refinancings, 33% of homeowners put cash into the deal to lower their mortgage balances, the highest percentage ever. By contrast, only … Read More

A couple of past favorites, standup economist Yoram Bauman (see his classic Principles of economics, translated ) and singer Merle Hazard ( Inflation or Deflation? and H-E-D-G-E ), appear in the video …

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From Michelle Singletary at the WaPo: Paying your credit card bill before the mortgage TransUnion … recently released a report showing that an increasing number of consumers are choosing to pay their credit card bills before their monthly mortgages. … … Read More

TIME asks: The Great Recession: Will Construction Workers Survive? Nationally, unemployment fell to 9.7% in January, but in construction it jumped to 24.7% … “In the previous 14 years, I had not been out of work for more than one … Read More

Jon Stewart on Toyota ( link here ): The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Toyotathon of Death www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis

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Reuters is quoting President Obama: “One of the challenges that we’ve got to address internationally is currency rates and how they match up to make sure that our goods are not artificially inflated in price and their goods are artificially … Read More