Race to The Bottom

Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death on "Black Friday":
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html?_r=1&em
It happened in Long Island - one of the richest place in the nation. Guess they are still trying to keep up with the Jones.

It is the process, stupid!

http://contrarianedge.com/2008/11/21/the-process/
"Successful investing is about following a successful, time-proven process in good and bad times (especially bad times). "

Depression Economics

"When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/opinion/14krugman.html?em

Marathon Day

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/27/sports/20081027_MARATHON_INTERACTIVE.html

How about local economics?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/connecticut/02streetct.html?ref=connecticut

weekend reading

Depression 2.0?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/business/26view.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
Buying Gold Coins? Not even that is a sure bet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102500043.html
RIP American Consumer.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10262008/business/the_consumer__r_i_p__135397.htm

Buy American Equity

"So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over." - Warren Buffet

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

Krugman's Nobel Prize

Congratulation!
But why I cannot shake the comparison to Sholes and Merton's Nobel while at LTCM?
Here is his column on NYT on how Nobel day:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion/13krugman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin