Thursday, October 18, 2012

Friday econ dump at the cusp of the fiscal year, October 2012


I collected these things from the previous week as many sat down to watch the first presidential debates, 

BoA gave $4.2 billion settlement to investors over Merrill Lynch losses

Banks begin offering limited cases of renting instead of evicting for foreclosed homeowners, four years later after they dropped the ball

In July 2009 gas prices went way up. Turns out it was because a trader, in a drunk blackout, sold $520 million worth of oil future contracts thru the night...

and from last week, a look at actual costs in fracking.

Goldman Sachs Chair and CEO Lloyd Blankfein comes on marketplace on following Tuesday (Oct2) and doesn't sound a thing like anything the Republicans have been yelling for the last several years, 9 min audio

JP Morgan sued for cases picked up when they were essentially forced to buy Bear-Stearns in 2008. 2 min audio

Kai's interview with NY AG Schneidermann on NY State in a coalition of AG offices bringing civil cases of fraud to JP Morgan et al over a number of things, Tuesday Oct02. 5 min audio

Extra Special Bonus (But Feels Like A Present) Award goes to Planet Money for this Tuesday's podcast. Ta-da!
Double entry bookkeeping gets a podcast and they give the credit to Luca Pacioli who went to Venice to finish and make and sell his big math book: Summa Arithmetica... in Sanudo's time period even...!!! These people get it... I love it when they talk about my period of study.

and previously on the same channel:
In a joint effort, the bbc and marketplace teamed up to host a
neat talk about US economy, 56 min, I'd say it was needed and
it happened
on this show , the one called, do we get the banks we deserve?


Germany, Australia and Canada have proposed or adopted limits on high speed trading on their stock exchanges. Why is it we can't do that? 3 min

Planet Money investigates:

Insurance companies send kickbacks to customers in settlement as a response to one of health care law provisions, 3 min


What to do with a shell company? Providing context, 19 min


What if you controlled the economy - playing with econ models. If you could raise national confidence would that bring down unemployment? etc. 14 min


How to spin those economic popular ideas that politicians won't touch , OR, how spinmeisters do what they do/ 22 min


Saturday, 29sep12 on upwithchris he has a bunch of Republicans on to talk about the presumed popping of the conservative bubble, economics, the lack of new right foreign policy;
Sunday, 30sep12 Chris Hayes has a more liberal group talking about the importance of the Supreme Court in this election, the national assaults on voting rights, free speech

Firedoglake book salon:
Saturday
A discussion on how to talk about the economy. worth it!

BoA starts paying off investors for acquisition of Merrill-Lynch four years ago.

and presenting even MORE from late sept12:


why pictures can sway our moral judgements from npr morning edition, 20sep12, 8 min

and the best thing I've seen Jon Stewart do since his homage to Glenn Beck - he's since enlarged his scope, 19sep12; this first monologue here that lasts 11:30 obliterating the 'turd containment' lackeys trying to mop up the chaos on "bullshit mountain"

Just look at 'em go. See how they run!
view into why Kobach's agenda must be stopped. 7 min

Rhapsody In Blue, 'Original Piano Roll' w/ 'The George Gershwin Story'  , 10 min

Chris Christie lacks leadership abilities: Time for him to go.

Holy chao! These people are living up in trees in TX protesting the advancement of the XL Pipeline there. Dude! They're up in trees, can you give $10 to muthas up in trees?  Wow!

Jennifer Rubin still incensed trying to martyr herself for free speech, again, but will she say the same about Ann Romney?

Sen Sanders warns about Grand Bargain in Lameduck session between November and lnauguration Day

In comparison, Christine LeGarde IMF Managing Director who was French Econ Minister when the credit crunch happened, seems to be speaking remarkably clearly, 24sep12, 11 min

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