Our last post featuring the graphics of Mike Licht of NotionsCapital… Click on an image to see it full size. Fun With Photoshop I and II here.

Some of you have no doubt seen the “Fear the Boom and Bust” video featuring the rap stylings of economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek, two economists with diametrically opposed viewpoints. To put the dispute in its most simplistic terms, Keynes thought government intervention was the only way out of economic downturns, and Hayek…not so much. (Think Paul Krugman vs. Ron Paul to get a picture of two contemporary acolytes of these schools of thought.)

In Wikipedia’s entry on Keynes, the section “Economics: out of favour 1979–2007” is followed by Economics: the Keynesian resurgence of 2008–2009.

Lester & Charlie lend their expertise to solving the financial crisis.

It’s a different type of “bail-out.” The Huffington Post and friends are spearheading a nascent movement to move your money from the big financial giants to community banks. From a column by Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson: The big banks on Wall Street, propped up by taxpayer money and government guarantees, have had a record [...]