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• #cotc Carnival of the Capitalists for 4/20/09: http://bizosphere.com/?p=167 #
• Not a post/article, but ExecTweets seems interesting: http://www.exectweets.com/ #
• Isn’t it always fun to blame Spitzer? http://tinyurl.com/dkw3wp #
• Party like it’s 1934: http://tinyurl.com/c8crw2 #
• Handling resume overload: http://blogs.bnet.com/bnet1/?p=1671 #
• Bandwidth Malthusians: http://tinyurl.com/chpla8 (Malthus lied, people thrived…) #
• 100 Free Useful Biz Courses/Lectures: http://tinyurl.com/cszy4u #
• Rob Sama Grand Plan - Taxation (Long, Cool): http://samablog.robsama.com/?p=4237 #
• Brief Atlas Shrugged review w/spoilers: http://andstillipersist.com/2009/04/atlas-shrugged-a-brief-review-wspoilers/ #
• Why is Venture Capital Under Assault? http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=325207949387991 #
• Pirate Bay http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/2009/04/a-primer-on-pirate-bay-the-conviction-file-sharing-and-torrents.html #
• Review “Talent Is Overrated What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else” - Geoff Colvin http://bit.ly/fzyoV #
• The Box: http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/04/the-box.html #
• Death of the General: http://bit.ly/ziOxM #
• Less expensive yet more effective leadership development: http://bit.ly/9lu44 #
• Branding and Twitter: http://www.vipvirtualsolutions.com.au/2009/04/what-does-your-brand-say-about-you.html #
• Is Citigroup Vikram Pandit’s Job Safe? http://banksavingsreview.com/is-citigroup-vikram-pandits-job-safe/ #
• Rearranging bank deck chairs: http://wenchwisdom.blogspot.com/2009/04/using-our-own-money-against-us-part-4.html #
• Brain Map for executive time: http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/04/brain-map-executive-time.html #
• The Walmart Question: http://blog.mises.org/archives/009846.asp #
• Bank lending games? http://everydayfinance.blogspot.com/2009/04/refi-rates-low-but-banks-arent-lending.html #
• How to invest in Cuba: http://www.darwinsfinance.com/how-to-invest-in-cuba-does-obamas-cuba-deal-spell-gains/ #
• Risk Management: http://www.iqi-sm.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/23/strategy/how-to-develop-an-effective-business-risk-management-strategy/ #
• Understanding PPIP: http://wallandmain.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/understanding-the-ppip/ #
• Rob Sama Grand Plan on Housing: http://samablog.robsama.com/?p=4304 #
• Going Postal: http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=614 #
• That concludes this week’s entries. #
• Still looking for work, tech, maybe management, even blog-related. Resume PDF at http://bit.ly/5GxHh or LinkedIn at http://bit.ly/L8rkw. #
• Stay tuned for next week’s edition at http://bizosphere.com/, or read/follow http://twitter.com/CotC to catch them as they are tweeted. #

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Chuck Simmons did a fascinating analysis of the debt carried by the ten top corporations in the United States, finding they have combined debt over 2.5 itrillion/i dollars. Thats not counting things not reflected in that balance sheet position, like GMs prospectively deadly pension obligations.

In going back through old business and economics posts I’ve written elsewhere, I noticed regular assertions i made that we were in a housing bubble, and links to other people on the topic. It might be interesting to compile them, in retrospect, especially given the latest assertions by some that there is or was no bubble, or certainly not one of significance.

We had to fend off people trying to drumbeat us into buying a house we couldn’t possibly have afforded, at or near the obvious top of the market, which would have been done through dubious financing for which we should have qualified if we’d applied, even without most of the debt we carry. That fact alone screamed bubble and overextension.

Retrospectives to come, as I get to it.