Scott Jagow

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Morning Reading

Feb 8, 2010
Good morning. Hope you had a good weekend. Here a a few items to get the week started, including both sinners and SAINTS:...

Have something to say to Citi?

Feb 5, 2010
This week, Citigroup added one more blog to the universe. It includes video interviews with Citi executives in charge of things like risk,...

Misreading the job numbers

Feb 5, 2010
The consensus over January's employment report seems to be "cautious optimism." It's "a cause for hope, but not celebration" is how the president...

Pay as you go broke

Feb 5, 2010
Both the House and the Senate have passed new "pay as you go" rules. PAYGO requires any new spending measures to be offset by cuts elsewhere or by...

Morning Reading

Feb 5, 2010
Happy Friday. This morning, the latest job numbers are out. Plus, the mystery men of the financial crisis and debating the ruling on campaign ads...

Making life better and people happy

Feb 4, 2010
There were two food and beverage innovations announced today that are supposed to spread joy across the world. One of them might prevent drunk...

It's the principal of the thing

Feb 4, 2010
The housing market has an enormous elephant in the room, and no one seems to be able to move it. If homeowners start walking away from their...

Be very, very afraid

Feb 4, 2010
Do not be fooled, my friend. That is not a fiscal conservative you see below. I know it looks just like one. But it's not. It's a man dressed...

Morning Reading

Feb 4, 2010
Good morning. Just a few items to start the day, including -- how financial innovation causes bubbles, more on Toyota and some great iPad comedy....

A Freudian Toyotian Slip?

Feb 3, 2010
Take this post with a grain of salt. I won't be the one to suggest the US government is trying to "sweep the leg" out from under Toyota. But what...