Archive for April 28th, 2009
Wed. Show Prep – Stress Test Edition
Reuters: Remember how the government was going to give the banks a "stress test" to see how they were doing as part of the TARP program? Citi and Bank of America failed. This is bad news for me, since I'm a Bank of America customer. Is putting all of my money under my mattress a good idea since I don't actually own my mattress? CBS: The good [...]
Big Bada Boom
Space Explosion Is Farthest Thing Ever Seen: The gamma-ray burst came from about 13 billion light-years away, and represents a relic from when the universe was just 630 million years old. "It easily surpassed the most distant galaxies and quasars," said Edo Berger, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and a leading member of the team that [...]
