Category Archives: News

The Brutal, Blood-Red Remains

New TechniqueYou certainly don’t need to turn to Subtraction.com to hear this news, but I thought I should mention that the market had a miserable day anyway. The Dow Jones fell a dizzy 436 points, while the NASDAQ fell below the psychologically frightening 2000 mark. A friend of mine, using MapStation from SmartMoney, sent me this visualization of what happened today with the NASDAQ. Red indicates equities that lost ground today. The one green bar is Compuware (CPWR), who must have cut a deal with the devil or something.

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Amateur Economists’ Hour

DiagramI’ve been doodling this diagram for a few days. It’s a visualization of what’s happening with the Internet consulting industry, of which I happen to be a part. My aim was to try to understand the nature of the shift in our once-flush space, and maybe try and see a little further ahead at a possible resolution.

Okay, I know it looks like a big funnel or a diagram of a ventilation system of some sort, and it’s also incredibly unscientific. You’ll need the Flash plug-in to view it.

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Things You Notice When You Grow Up

As an adult, I guess I no longer have the luxury of staying basically oblivious to the state of our economy. All the same, I feel a little odd about the close attention I pay to the shards of good news that might salvage us from a recession. According to The Conference Board, the Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose 0.8 percent in January. That’s cause for some optimism, right? It’s weird not being a kid anymore.

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Congratulations, Mr. Bush

Now that the conservative wing of the Supreme Court has clearly demonstrated it cares not a whit for the voting rights of African Americans, it’s virtually certain that George W. Bush will be our forty-third President. How we ever got to this miserable nadir, I can’t say.

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