What was your experience with the Blogger user interface? Easy? Confusing? Other?
Easy to use and the blog is use friendly.
What, if any, changes did you make to your blog's layout, fonts, or colors?
I add a picture to the blog, and the color of my font remains white because it looks cool in my blog.
What do you think of blogging? Do you think you might actually use your own blog outside of this class?
I am actually using a blog outside of my class, which is called xanga.com.
What did you think about any of the example blogs you looked? Were any of them interesting enough that you might want to keep reading them?
Xanga.com always show some popular blogs that people visit all the time. These blogs usually discuss some interesting facts, and the bloggers usually post some interesting stories.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide
Should I Prepare My Portfolio for a New Depression?
First, let's explain our terms. Economists broadly define a depression as a 10% drop in output and consumption. In the Great Depression our gross domestic product fell 25%. There are some frightening parallels between then and now: Banks are weak, and the economy is loaded up with debt. (See the graphic on the left.)
But historian Eric Rauchway of the University of California at Davis points to big differences too. Strange as it sounds, our financial system is vastly better regulated than it was then. Bank deposits are insured, and the Federal Reserve has taken an active role in trying to stem the crisis. Policymakers have in fact been trying to do everything their predecessors didn't — they're spending like mad, saving banks and loosening up money. (No guarantee that this will work, but it beats doing what clearly didn't work before.) Meanwhile, a social safety net adds stability to the economy that wasn't there in 1930.
First, let's explain our terms. Economists broadly define a depression as a 10% drop in output and consumption. In the Great Depression our gross domestic product fell 25%. There are some frightening parallels between then and now: Banks are weak, and the economy is loaded up with debt. (See the graphic on the left.)
But historian Eric Rauchway of the University of California at Davis points to big differences too. Strange as it sounds, our financial system is vastly better regulated than it was then. Bank deposits are insured, and the Federal Reserve has taken an active role in trying to stem the crisis. Policymakers have in fact been trying to do everything their predecessors didn't — they're spending like mad, saving banks and loosening up money. (No guarantee that this will work, but it beats doing what clearly didn't work before.) Meanwhile, a social safety net adds stability to the economy that wasn't there in 1930.
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