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Category Archives: Rod Serling

Otherworldly

G-7 meet on April 11, 2008 to forestall meltdown

Saskia Sassen: A Bad Idea: Using a Financial Solution to the Financial Crisis

A little less leverage

Flight Attendant Helps Land Plane After Co-Pilot’s Mental Breakdown

“An Air Canada co-pilot having a mental breakdown had to be forcibly removed from the cockpit, restrained and sedated, and a stewardess with flying experience helped the pilot safely make an emergency landing

Vanity Fair’s Year in Pictures, Part One: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

Bonfire

The End of Wall Street’s Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com

Not for a moment did I suspect that the financial 1980s would last two full decades longer

Victor Victoria

To listen to John McCain in debate and on the stump, you would think that he was refighting his war, which ended in a hasty, unseemly retreat as the enemy circled and stormed the last outposts.

That is not, militarily, the position we find ourselves facing in Iraq. We can withdraw at the time and pace [...]

Declarations - WSJ.com

Gush, hush, wuss, what?

The usually nuanced and thoughtful Peggy Noonan does not know, exactly, how to distinguish what she thinks from what she feels about what she feels she thinks, I think.

Instant New Deal

The government is working on programs that could represent the biggest intervention in financial markets since the 1930s, including a mechanism to take bad assets off the balance sheets of financial companies.

FT.com / In depth - Panic grips credit markets

Barometers of financial stress hit record peaks across the world. Yields on short-term US Treasuries hit their lowest level since the London Blitz, while gold had its biggest one-day gain ever in dollar terms. Lending between banks, in effect, stopped.”

Homage to Hank