Author Archive

• SUNDAY STUFF
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 24th, 2010 at 11:23 am

  

  Tuition Free College? (Business Week)

  E-Book – Free Book … Kindle (NYT)

  Twitter Launches Location-Based Trending Topics   (Mashable)

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• WEEKEND READING
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 23rd, 2010 at 12:43 pm

  

  A Seinfeld Perspective on Massachusetts   (American Thinker)

  JOBS! -  The Massachusetts Message   (Huff Post)

  Feeling the Heat, Obama Pours Kool-Aid (Real Clear Politics)

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• Morning Coffee
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 21st, 2010 at 9:40 am

  

  Bill Gates: Innovation, Not Insulation…   (Huff Post)

  How Fast Is Your Web Connection? (NYT)

  Amazon to Launch App Store for Kindle (Mashable)

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• Morning Coffee
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 20th, 2010 at 10:51 am

  

  One Million Orphans in Haiti! (Mail Online)

  Taiwan’s Exports Surge 52.6% (MarketWatch)

  Coming Soon: Buffett for the Masses? (Business Week)

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• WEEKEND READING
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 16th, 2010 at 5:09 pm

  

  Moral Bankruptcy (Joseph Stiglitz)

  Too Big to Jail? (Mother Jones)

  Wanted: A Capital Markets Safety Board (Harvard Business Review)

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• State of the States
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 15th, 2010 at 7:30 am

  

  California’s credit rating has been cut to A- by the S & P.   2009 was one of the worst years in history forstate budgets and 2010 looks to be worse.  Revenue is down on all levels, state and local.   Receipts from sales taxes, corporate income and personal income taxes continue to fall.  States are required by law to balance their budgets; they can’t print money like “Helicopter Ben.”  (Although California issuing I.O.U.’s is sort of like printing money.)

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• MORNING COFFEE
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 14th, 2010 at 11:15 am

  

  Al-Qaeda Has Own Secret Airline (Yahoo)

  Back to The Era of the Robber Barrons? (Huff Post)

  Here Comes the Story of the “Hurricane” (Dylan Ratigan)

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• MORNING COFFEE
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 13th, 2010 at 10:37 am

  

  Google May Pull Out of China (Yahoo)

  Google’s Footprint in China (Reuters)

  Super Bowl Sales as Economic Indicator (NYT)

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• MORNING QUICKIE
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 12th, 2010 at 9:59 am

  

  Where is America’s Debt?- Cool Infograph (Visual Economics)

  Fitch:  U.S. – AAA Rating at Risk! (Telegraph)

  Federal Reserve Earned $45 Billion in 2009 (Wa Post)

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• MORNING QUICKIE
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 11th, 2010 at 7:30 am

  

  Economic Calendar – The Week Ahead (Econoday) (Bloomberg)

  A “Macro Level” Look at the Economy (Karl Denninger)

  Reid Fights For Political Life (Politico)

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• SUNDAY STUFF
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 10th, 2010 at 12:35 pm

  

  Want to Learn Spanish? There’s an App For That! (Huff Post) (Demo)

  Ten Master’s (Degrees) of the New Universe (NYT)

  Are You Ready For 3-D in Your Living Room? (All Things Digital)

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• WEEKEND READING
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 9th, 2010 at 1:59 pm

  

  Timothy Geithner, I Call Your Bluff! (Janet Tavakoli)

  Bubble Warning (The Economist)

  The Sounds of Silence   (The Deal)

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• TECH NEWS QUICKIES
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 8th, 2010 at 1:20 pm

  

  CES 2010: Three Big Tech Trends (Pop Mechanics)

  The Best of CES 2010 (Gizmodo)

  3D-HDTV-A-Palooza   (Huff Post)

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• MORNING QUICKIES
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 7th, 2010 at 10:25 am

  

  Western Government Sovereign Debt in Trouble (Karl Denninger)

  FOMC Minutes Recap (Huff Post)

  Commercial Real Estate’s Unfolding Disaster: Neither Surprising Nor Containable   (Michael Panzner)

  China Tightening? (FT)

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• WEDNESDAY NEWS QUICKIES
  MarketNut, Lynn Berman | January 6th, 2010 at 11:41 am

  

  TrimTabs on That “US Government-Rigged Stock Market”   (FT Alphaville)

  Looting and Gaming the System (Washington’s Blog)

  MUST READ! - Capital City (Mother Jones)

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