Planet Money and Baseline Scenario

The podcast NPR Planet Money is pretty good. Also, MIT Prof Simon Johnson's blog Baseline Scenario is worth checking out and has videos of an excellent seminar series on the financial crisis.

Peter Schiff video highlights

Euro Pacific Captal president Peter Schiff predicted many of the current economic problems a while ago(video).

From Cannonfire:

"This video sequence offers a compendium of appearances (covering the 2006-2007 period) by Euro Pacific Capital president Peter Schiff, who is a frequent -- and frequently disrespected -- talking head on cable news shows. What astonishes is not just the accuracy of his dour predictions about the economy but the sheer arrogance of every other person appearing on these programs."

Schiff was recently featured on the NPR Planet Money podcast.

The Black Belt: How Soil Types Determined the 2008 Election in the Deep South

http://vigorousnorth.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-belt-how-soil-types-determined.html