Five Alternatives to the $700 Billion Bailout Proposal Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-10-01 18:52:28 It's one thing to hate on the bailout plan and quite another to come up with an alternative, but following are five attempts at a better way forward:
Five Reasons to Save the Dollar Written By: Eben Esterhuizen 2008-03-03 00:38:12 Photo:VaguelyArtistic, Creative Commons, Flickr
Financial firms have so far announced losses totaling around $160 billion, and UBS feels there could be a total of $600 billion in losses triggered by the subprime collapse. There is more bad news to come and central bankers know it. If UBS is correct we've only seen the tip of the subprime iceberg, and central bankers will have to remain flexibile to effectively deal with upcoming challenges. I don't doubt that the dollar's long term trend is down, but coordinated intervention to give the U.S. dollar a short-term (2-5 years) lift may be an interesting idea for central banks to consider.
Floating Nuclear Plants: A Really Good Idea Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-08-04 18:16:18
One of the ongoing problems of nuclear energy is that pressurized light water reactors, or PWRs, and boiling water reactors (BWRs) require copious amounts of water to remove excess heat from the steam system in order to condense the steam.
Fox Launches a Business Channel and I Reconsider CNBC and Bloomberg Written By: Thomas Chenoweth 2007-10-15 06:14:44
Early Monday morning the new Fox business channel officially began airing at 4am. Now there is a new kid on the block for financial news media, and my biggest problem is which channel to set my television to during the trading day.
Freud, the Fed, and a Box of Chocolates Written By: Eben Esterhuizen 2007-12-15 07:36:32
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them" - Oscar Wilde
