Jewish Caruso
July 23rd, 2010I enjoyed this article about a Hassidic Jew whose love of very old Jewish Recordings garners him a bit of fame.
How the Old Spice Commercial was made
July 16th, 2010One of the best commercials ever, this is a great video into how it was made. Hat tip: Barry Ritholtz.
China is dumping Treasuries
July 16th, 2010This is very troublesome.
Diaspora Need Not Apply
July 16th, 2010There is a fantastic oped in the NY Times from Alana Newhouse, the editor in chief of Tablet Magazine (which I really enjoy). There is a bill before the Israeli Knesset that may radically change Israel. That bill would give the ultra-orthodox power to say who is Jewish and who isn’t. This would destroy the connection between most Diaspora Jews (Jews living outside of Israel) and Israel. I wrote about the problem of Who is a Jew before when I visited Israel and the religious problem in Israel. I’ve also written about the Supreme Court case in Britain of determining who is Jewish. This is an issue that is very close to my heart and very important to me.
Here is the Oped: NY Times Oped
Here are my past related blog posts:
Are you Religious?
The Swing Vote
Who Determines Who is Jewish?
The $4 Trillion Question
July 15th, 2010I thought this blog post from Barry Ritholtz was excellent. It contains an excellent housing analysis from Dhaval Joshi from RAB Capital. Quick summary: there is $4 trillion too much mortgage debt and 4-5 million too many homes. This is a must read.
Lenny Kravitz Crashes a New Orleans Choir Performance
July 1st, 2010I have no idea if this is staged or not, I just think it is really cool. The kid on guitar is really, talented.
Inflation coming from China?
June 30th, 2010This latest Jeff Matthews post about the possibility of inflation coming from China strikes me as very, very important.
We have clearly benefited in the past from cheap money, cheap labor and cheap natural resources and it seems very clear that all of these very positive trends are reversing one by one.
Mel’s Hole Vs. Matt’s Hole
June 16th, 2010Excellent blog post by Paul Kedrosky on Matt Simmons’ claims. Who’s right? No idea.
120,000 b/d leak from the BP spill?
June 15th, 2010
In Gaza you Burn summer camps for Girls
June 8th, 2010What a wonderful culture and people to support:
“Masked gunmen from an Islamist group torched a UN-run summer camp for children and teens in Gaza on Sunday, Army Radio reported, the top UN aid official in Gaza said.”
“During the past month alone, five Gazans have been executed with formal sanction from the Strip’s Hamas rulers, three of them shot to death in front of the families of their victims just last Tuesday. Their bloodied bodies were then unceremoniously dumped at the local Shifa Hospital.”
“Modesty patrols” inspect cars to catch unmarried women with men who aren’t relatives.