| March 3 |
- The chronicles of Austan Goolsbee
- Obama's economic advisor admits he talked about trade with Canadian officials. But he was misquoted! Except he was telling the truth!
- Who is, or was, Big Oil's candidate?
- Clinton beats Obama and McCain. But nobody currently running for president comes close to the real winner.
- Won't get subprime fooled again
- Has the world learned its lesson? If you want to grow up tall and strong, don't eat toxic waste?
- John McCain's permanent tax cut revolution
- He voted against 'em, but now thinks they're the cure for an economy headed to nowheres-ville. Maybe he'll explain this paradox in a "fireside chat"
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| March 4 |
- The iPod economy's sad song
- What do sales of memory chips and iPods, along with rising bankruptcy filings, tell us? Nothing good.
- A primer in plug-in hybrid economics
- How many cars can Californians plug into the grid before new power plants are necessary?
- Gary Gygax's final quest
- The co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons is dead. Let's all stop playing World of Warcraft for a minute, and remember him.
- Did the Mayans make their own climate change?
- Satellite imagery suggests the severe droughts that plagued Mesoamerica's ancient civilization were self-inflicted
- Exit polling suggests Texan voters are anti-trade
- Bad news for Obama? A majority of Texans say trade is bad.
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| March 5 |
- Steamship globalization and Ohio's manufacturing jobs
- Who is to blame for unfair global trade? How about the Industrial Revolution?
- Give us your poor, your tired, your genetic modification experiments
- A French biotechnology company moves its research to the U.S., citing domestic issues. As in, France hates Monsanto.
- Norway's moon shot
- Who says burying carbon dioxide in caverns beneath the sea will never work? Norway's been doing it for a decade
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| March 6 |
- Hacking into Freedom City
- "The Gulag Archipelago" meets "Counter-Strike" in China. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Deliver milk powder.
- Twilight of the hedge funds
- Carlyle Capital can't meet its margin calls. "Deleveraging's" widening gyre continues to turn.
- Countrywide and the "left-wing anti-business press"
- How dare journalists criticize Angelo Mozilo's big fat honking utterly undeserved executive compensation?! Have they no respect?
- The great homeowner equity depression
- As economic catastrophe looms, the mortgage industry, with the help of Republicans, fights to stop the government from making a real difference
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| March 7 |
- The super-bollworm cometh
- The first bug to evolve resistance to toxins in genetically modified cotton has arrived. Should we run screaming for the hills?
- The best subprime headline ever
- Ever wondered how thrash metal pioneer Dave Mustaine feels about foreclosures?
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| March 10 |
- Presidential elections: They're a gas, gas, gas
- Crunching the numbers on the relationship between gas prices and control of the White House
- Free drugs from your faucet
- The Associated Press discovers that our drinking water is loaded with drugs. Ho hum
- Paying the polysilicon piper
- Are German solar power consumers responsible for toxic waste dumping in Gaolong, China?
- Eliot Spitzer's monumental fall from grace
- In the post-dot-com, post-Enron era, the attorney general of New York landed some uppercuts on the high and mighty. But now he's the one lying on the mat. By his own hand.
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| March 11 |
- Another day, another $200 billion liquidity injection
- Don't call it a bailout! The Fed rides to the rescue yet again, but those cavalry horses must be getting tired.
- Who killed public transportation?
- High gas prices are boosting train and bus ridership to levels not seen since the 1950s. What happened back then?
- Paul Krugman flies to outer space
- A science fiction geek's delight: Aliens, interest rates, relativity theory and Isaac Asimov jokes
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| March 12 |
- Homeowners learn a home equity lesson
- Which bill should you pay last? How about the one from the lender who can't take your house?
- The Okefenokee titanium dioxide blues
- From a Pleistocene beach to your Oreo cookie, some white pigment which may or may not brighten your day.
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| March 13 |
- Economists surprised consumers aren't superhuman
- Retail sales plunged in February, sending financial markets into a tizzy. Who could have predicted such a shocker?
- Life and death and bicycling
- Cheers to Rep. Earl Blumenauer and his efforts to boost government support for cycling. And tears for the greatest bicycle geek of them all -- Sheldon Brown.
- The Twittering of Ben Bernanke
- Minute-by-minute, behind-the-scenes updates from the busy Federal Reserve chairman, live to your iPhone. Talk about your new, new media
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| March 17 |
- Nightmare on Wall Street
- Another emergency rate cut, and investment bank Bear Stearns goes on the auction block. The canary in the coal mine? It's dead.
- George Bush's reality distortion field
- The president appraises Wall Street's performance Monday morning.
- A 1930s history lesson
- Protectionism on the rise, bickering about exchange rates, the debilitating costs of war -- where have we heard this story before?
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| March 18 |
- High tide for the Reagan revolution?
- What does Bear-Stearns's collapse portend for the ideology of deregulation?
- The Bear-Stearns Microsoft/Yahoo connection
- Microsoft hired Bear-Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz as an adviser on its Yahoo bid. Are Schwartz's woes a hopeful sign for the Silicon Valley software giant?
- Who predicted the credit crunch abyss?
- One year ago, Ben Bernanke got it wrong. But even earlier, another Federal Reserve official was signaling the alarm.
- Borshch in the post-USSR
- Everything you didn't know you wanted to know about the old Soviet Union's unifying cuisine
- The last rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke
- Back in the day, 50 cents would get your mind blown. Thanks for the psycho-computers and ominous aliens, Arthur.
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| March 19 |
- "Free" trade has a price, President Bush
- In Jacksonville, Fla., Bush praises the benefits of trade, but in Washington, helping workers who get burned by the global economy isn't his priority. Too bad for him.
- Architecture of a recession.
- Another economic indicator goes cliff-diving: Will the commercial construction industry be the next domino to fall?
- Easy money days are here again?
- Greenspan's post-dot-com-bust rate cuts spurred the biggest spending binge in recent American history. What will Bernanke's Fed accomplish?
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| March 20 |
- "The Beijing Olympics debacle has begun"
- Riots and death in Tibet, out-of-control pollution, protests over Darfur: Beijing's ready for its close-up!
- A Bear Stearns (im)morality tale
- Who pocketed the most millions from Wall Street's biggest embarrassment? Was it the guy originally blamed for creating the mess?
- The "War and Peace" of "Space Invaders"
- Please, I beg of you -- don't press that button! You have no idea of the heartbreak you will wreak
- The sad case of the wiggly chapati
- Will a change in U.K. immigration laws doom the most savory relic of the British Empire?
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| March 21 |
- Barney Frank's new, improved Federal Reserve
- Don't you just love the smell of regulatory napalm in the morning?
- How did China learn how to spin Tibet?
- One well-known Chinese blogger suggests we can look to the White House for the answer.
- Welcome to the compact fluorescent twilight zone
- When does it not make environmental sense to switch from incandescent lightbulbs to CFLs?
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| March 24 |
- Bear Stearns proves tantrums work
- Shareholders in the investment bank pouted, screamed, stamped their feet and got what they wanted: A better bailout.
- Stick-figure Web-comic Sanskritology
- The popularity of "xkcd" explained, courtesy of a 2,000-year-old Sanskrit text.
- Hillary Clinton's plan to fix the economy
- Clinton gave a good speech on her plans to address the nation's economic woes. But do we really need more help from Alan Greenspan?
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| March 25 |
- A taste of North Korean beer propaganda
- Just because it's hyperbolic and historically inaccurate doesn't mean it's wrong
- Consumer pessimism
- Not since the unlamented days of the 1973 oil embargo have Americans felt as gloomy about the economy as they do now
- John McCain's plan to ignore the economy
- No "election-year politics," promises the senator. And no substantive policy proposals, either.
- McCain-onomics: A tax cut in every corporate pot
- The candidate's economic advisors explain how getting rid of the capital gains tax will ease the credit crunch
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| March 26 |
- The light-bulb wars switch on again
- Wanna be warm? Get an electric heater, and get rid of your incandescents, say a chorus of compact fluorescent supporters.
- Who killed global capitalism?
- A "lost decade" for stocks? The "high water mark" of financial deregulation? Who pulled the trigger?
- Bye-bye, Antarctica?
- Another big chunk of ice starts to crumble way down south. But is the continent as a whole warming or cooling?
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| March 27 |
- The resurrection of John Maynard Keynes
- Eclipsed by the ascendancy of Milton Friedman, laissez-faire's most determined antagonist is back in fashion.
- Obama's plan to change the economy
- The new economy needs new rules, declares the candidate. His timing could not be better.
- Kicking the gas-guzzling habit
- Guess what? Americans do know how to drive less. All you need are record gas prices and a recessionary economy
- Bonfire of the Bear-Stearns vanities
- It's time to trim the fat on Wall Street. No more fancy curtains for "the wife"
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| March 28 |
- Can McCain starve the supply-side beast?
- What's it going to be: Tax cuts to raise revenue, or lower revenue to force spending cuts?
- Whatever happened to the great ARM reset crisis?
- Why we shouldn't trust a contrarian opinion arguing that 2008's mortgage rate hike won't be so bad, after all.
- De Beers bends the knee to Botswana
- Now raw diamonds will be processed in Africa, instead of Antwerp. But what will China and India think of that?
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| March 31 |
- King corn takes a hit
- Soybeans are back in farmer favor as fertilizer prices spike. But whatever happened to oats?
- A bad week for buffalo mozzarella
- China is the latest to ban imports, citing dioxin concerns. But how did the seventh century barbarian nomad Avars get involved in this mess?
- Paulson's bogus plan to regulate the markets
- Derivative traders have nothing to fear: The "Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure" makes that crystal-clear.
- The audacity of free trade
- One month after NAFTA-gate, it's time to look back and see what exactly Barack Obama said about trade, in "The Audacity of Hope"
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