The Lippard Blog

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2020. Nicholson Baker, Baseless: My Search for Secre...

The assets of Premise Media, including rights to "Expelled," are going up for auction.  The Talk Origins Foundation plans to bid f...

On May 22, 2011, we will either see that many Christians have disappeared and we've been left behind, or that the claims of billboards l...

A few years ago, I noted that popular and wealthy libertarian investment writer Douglas Casey was making tacit references to L. Ron Hubbard ...

Todd Wood of the Center for Origins Research at Bryan College has gotten around to doing what I haven't done, updating my analysis of t...

The Center for Public Integrity, an organization I support, has just published the results of an investigation into the roots of the recent ...

A nice visual depiction of what it amounts to. (Via The Agitator .)

At the Financial Times (with more detail for each item): 1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. 2. No socia...

A banker who resisted the urge to invest in toxic assets during the boom is cleaning up during the bust . Andy Beal of Beal Bank in Plano, ...

$10.1 billion in federal stimulus money has been released to the states by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Arizona is r...

I just read this email this morning, which has to win a prize for the best Nigerian 419 scam I've ever seen: Reply-To: From: "Mrs. ...

I recently wrote about how Chase Bank's inflexible systems just cost it money by not allowing me to make a $100 payment to my mortgage a...

My mortgage has been purchased by Chase Bank a couple of times (after the first time, I refinanced with another bank and then Chase bought m...

In a fiendishly clever plan, Credit Suisse Group AG has found a way to reduce its exposure to toxic securities and transfer risk off its bal...

The traditional bank lobby, filled with expensive marble and and furnishings, is designed to signal to the customer that the bank is stable ...

I'm generally quite averse to watching sports, let alone reading about them. But I did read Michael Lewis's Moneyball at one sitti...

Yesterday the Arizona Republic had an interactive foreclosure map and document of data (PDF) which includes the monthly foreclosure stati...

Gee, who was completely full of crap? I love the captions--Dow over 13,000 and Ben Stein is saying now's the time to buy... Merrill...

October set a new record of 8,503 notices of trustee's sales in Maricopa County, of which 900 were duplicates of previous notices. The ...

Colorado College political science professor David Hendrickson has put together a nice resource at his new "Cause for Depression" ...