Gil Friend’s Blog

27.3% and 26.0% drops today for Fanny Mae & Freddie Mac, respectively.

"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are failing and the only way to really save them - and American taxpayers - may be to take them over." So begins Too big to fail, from those crazy kids at the San Francisco Chronicle editorial desk. But, they continue: Global investors are...

The Hudson Institute discovers capitalism! You have to have the person who's writing the risk bearing the risk. That means a whole host of regulations. There's no way around that. - Irwin Seltzer, Director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies at the Hudson...

Tom Friedman of the New York Times on the gasoline tax holiday, in Dumb as We Wanna Be: This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks....

Jane and I are at a presentation by UC Berkeley geographer Gray Brechen about the incredible legacy of the New Deal and the Works Progress Administration on the public life of the United States -- and the incredible legacy it left us, of so much of the fabric of our...

Lots on my mind these days, but not much time to write about it. (Business is busy!) You can check in on some of what I'm thinking about at the EcoCity World Summit (Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco) this Friday (Apr 25), where I'll be speaking on: Regional...

" When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? " - John Maynard Keynes

In a disturbing piece titled How Hunger Could Topple Regimes, Time magazine comments: World Bank president Robert Zoellick noted last week that world food prices had risen 80% over the past three years, and warned that at least 33 countries face social unrest as a...

I'll be speaking at tonight at Yuri's Night 08 -- NASA's World Space Party-- or more precisely, 189 parties in 50 countries on 7 continents on 2 worlds. (I'll be at the one at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field.) The theme: Radical Technology for a Sustainable...