The Hit Farm

Pre-reading for Jackson Hole. I'm not at Jackson Hole — I've been blackballed for a decade, ever since I started criticizing the great Greenspan — so I won't get to hear Bernanke's speech. But like everyone else in econoland, On Friday all econ-loving eyes will be focused on Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Think of it as [...]

By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole, Wyo. The Red Rock Fire in the Gros Ventre Mountains grew to an estimated 3600 acres Tuesday night as firefighters protected several cabins in the path of the forest wilderness blaze. During an overflight Monday night, By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole, Wyo. The Red Rock Fire in the Gros Ventre [...]

And so we return to that point when the most engaging, yet useless, topic of discussion is what Bernanke will say or the Fed will do, in this case this coming Friday at the 2011 edition of the Jackson Hole Fed meeting, Against the backdrop of worldwide financial market distress not seen since the depths [...]