Reauxhan

[quote]I take it you folks hang on to this guy's every word because he wrote a book about a black swan. What's the point of reading about a black swan if you can't see them coming anyway, much less spending part of your life writing about it. Sounds like an a-hole [/quote] Agreed he's a pompous ...

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[quote]Disregarded by who? Politicians? Dude is only the chair of one of the most prestigious economics departments in the world (while receiving degrees from two others), what could he possibly know. It's not like he produced one of the most oft-cited research papers on debt crises in recent memo...

[quote]The thing about the last four is that most of these jobs will have benefits which will be nice revenue streams for doctors and hospitals.[/quote] Sweet...as someone whose parents are both doctors living in Monroe, I approve of that message!...

[quote]Honestly, I think "Liar's Poker" is entertaining and good but someone who doesn't understand the securities industry will get very wrong ideas from it. The book is written in a way that makes everyone involved seem like the caricature of a Wall Street rich cigar smoker who is having a blast a...

Just about everything I've read on the current crisis I've read on blogs I respect, or from economists I respect, so I haven't had time to read any of the books chronicling it to this point. That said, I hear good things about Gillian Tett's book "Fool's Gold." Another is "A Demon of Our Own Design"...

If Armageddon lies in those pages, do us a favor and give us a little heads up, eh? I haven't bought any ammo yet, just gold....

[quote]I think its much higher than that if you're talking about the GSEs+ GNM. I'm about to read through the Q. [/quote] You're going to read the entire Q?? God bless ya, dude....

What's on your RSS feed, if you don't mind my asking? I hear you on the information overload, I try to just keep it to naked capitalism, zero hedge, calculated risk, and occasionally Ritholtz' big picture blog. I check in on Mish from time to time as well, but I definitely don't have time to sit the...

Oh, and to give an actual answer to your original question - my point with all those stock stats is that it might be unwise to believe the rally has been sustainable, and seems a decent likelihood of correcting back to the economic fundamentals at some point. Markets often diverge from underlying ec...