Speaking Personally

Sarah Palin is a gift to Democrats.  While she is in National Politics 101 training Obama and Biden mopped up giving interviews on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows.  McCain got a bare 15 minutes on Face The Nation. John Coghill, GOP chairman of the Alaska Rules Committee has asked the state's Legislative Council to remove the Democratic state senator in charge of an investigation into alleged attempts by Governor Palin's   use of her office to have her former brother-in-law removed from state employment.  

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Three Important Stories

Capital and Its Complements

Nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Watch

San Francisco archbishop invites Pelosi to discuss abortion

Quotes and  Pointers

'I came to office promising major ethics reform, to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is the law.

While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for.  That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.'

Sarah Palin

'And it also looks like a recession from the perspective of a model of unemployment dynamics that I published in 2005. If you use that model to analyze the latest unemployment numbers, you'd calculate the current probability of being in a recession at 95%...'

Brad DeLong

'I am currently forecasting $65 SPX earnings, and a 15 PE gets you to about 975. There is a significant chance I revise this lower in the coming quarters; I have seen respectable forecasts of $57, and some as low as $48. It all depends upon how deep and prolonged the current recession will be . . .'

Barry Ritholtz

Out and About on the Net...Sometimes with Snarky Twitter Lines

Another McCain Involved In Bank Collapse? -- unfortunate since its a fresh news aspect for the Keating affair...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)  --  one page from a complex/beautiful music database. 

KANSAS CITY: Railroad art  --

et alli is cross posted at The Intelligence Forum