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[which_chick]

Usually when I pimp something from the blue screen, it's a Youtube funny or similar. I don't generally refer to Metafilter for my economic news. Today, however, they have a nice round-up of stuff about the Fed and the recently-devised TAF (that wonky new funds-auctioning thing). Take a look here.

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[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Slow day at work, so here are some charts to look at, a selection for those of you who didn't, y'know, read the linked article and would rather just look at pretty pictures.

It's not a recession on the horizon. Honest. (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/memory-lane/)

No worries, the subprime mess is practically over already! (http://bubblemeter.blogspot.com/2008/01/lawrence-yun-spouts-more-nonsense-in.html)

That? Oh, that's nothing to worry about. (http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/01/bank-reserves-go-negative.html)

Things are better for regular Americans now than they've ever been! (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/TDSP)

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I almost forgot about the new business opportunities (http://www.youwalkaway.com/) that our healthy and prospering economic climate is fostering.

Also, special for brni, here's a compare-n-contrast graphic (http://www.seekingalpha.com/article/61932-a-beautiful-model-for-loan-fraud?source=i_email&ref=patrick.net) of The New Way and The Old Way of making home loans.