Some good items elaborating on topics I’ve discussed in the past week:
- Paul Kedrosky says that the U.S. Venture Capital industry needs to shrink – by 50%. [my latest post on this]
- SubsidyScope presents some cool visualizations of the TARP money and other bailouts. (ht: Marcus Peacock in the comments) [latest post]
- Barrons analyzes the Citigroup arbitrage. (ht: Jonathan Feldman in the comments) [latest post]
- The New York Times traces the roots of the exploding budget deficit. [latest post]
- The Deal Professor examines how Treasury negotiates the TARP warrant repurchases. (ht: AF) [latest post]
- The Washington Post describes the key roll that the Congressional Budget Office — and, in particular, Doug Elmendorf, its director — will play in this summer’s health policy debate. [latest post]
- The Wall Street Journal discusses the antitrust scrutiny that Google is receiving. [latest post]
Thanks for the mention Donald. http://www.Subsidyscope.com will have a new, fresh look in about a week and we’ll start examining subsidies in the transportation sector soon. BTW, anyone interested in writing a paper on transportation or energy subsidies over the next several months pls go to the site and let us know. Thanks!