Bailout

Counterparties

By Felix Salmon

If the poor can’t get credit from banks, they’ll end up in more trouble elsewhere? Empirics please! — McArdle

Nobody has a million followers on Twitter — Dash

If you asked a blue-suit solution provider to quote you on building Twitter — Tbray

The Polycentric Parking System — Reason

Denton moves from pageviews to uniques. Guess he’s maxed out the juice he can wrong from those commenters — Awl

Gorgeous photos of a visit to Sprial Jetty — Art Fag City

Michael Corkery’s list of buck-passers who refuse to take any blame for the financial crisis. Could be much longer — WSJ

The $177,000 tuna. That’s $345/pound — Yahoo

Brett Arends holds me up as an exemplar of deplorable financial blogging, and implies that I don’t do “real thinking” — Marketwatch

Edmund Andrews, who took a Times buyout, is now a blogger for Capital Gains and Games; is also joining the Fiscal Times — CG&G, Politico

Full post as published by Macroprudential on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).