By Winthrop Quigley

1. N.M. Falls Hard Into Recession Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( News / Business Daily ) ...The mood of business in New Mexico is grim, and for good reason, a Federal Reserve System official said in Albuquerque on Thursday. New Mexico entered the national recession later than the rest of co... Thursday, Nov 19, 2009, 21:56 MST Word count: 884

2. First State Posts Increased Losses Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( News / Business Daily ) ...Losses at First State Bancorporation increased in the third quarter as the Albuquerque-based bank holding company continued to struggle with non-performing loans, the company announced Monday. Net lo... Monday, Nov 02, 2009, 17:59 MST Word count: 374

3. Canceled Contract Costs Jobs Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( News / Business Daily ) ...A canceled federal contract could cost as many as 165 people their jobs at a customer support center operated by Lockheed Martin Corp. in Downtown Albuquerque. Citing declining volume and budgetary c... Thursday, Oct 15, 2009, 17:59 MST Word count: 229

4. N.M. Banks Weathering Credit Crisis Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( News / Business Daily ) ...After one year of global credit crisis, New Mexico's banks still face tough lending environments and hold too many bad loans, but rumors that some banks are in imminent danger of failing are simpl... Friday, Oct 09, 2009, 17:59 MST Word count: 369

5. Economist Touts Housing Data Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( News / Business Daily ) ...Residential real estate dragged the nation into a recession and residential real estate will help fuel the recovery, a New Mexico State University economist told a gathering of the Rotary Clubs in Alb... Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009, 17:59 MST Word count: 437

6. UNM Site To Make Isotopes Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( News / Business Daily ) ...The University of New Mexico Cancer Center and medical technology colossus Siemens Corp. are expected to announce today that they are teaming up to make the center the hub of Siemen's medical isot... Monday, Sep 14, 2009, 19:55 MST Word count: 592

7. Negotiations Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...About 15 years ago I was a vice president with a company that was trying to turn technological innovations we found in the former Soviet Union into commercial ventures. One deal we were working on inv... Wednesday, Aug 26, 2009, 14:09 MST Word count: 358

8. Not a Bad Return Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Some of the predictable sniping occurred at Martin Heinrich's town hall on the health care bills Saturday. A noisy but minority cohort insisted on describing as socialism proposals to cover more low-i... Monday, Aug 24, 2009, 15:02 MST Word count: 386

9. Rationing Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Uwe Reinhardt provided an intelligent and timely reminder of what economists mean by rationing. Among the hot buttons in the health debate, especially at the contentious town halls congresspeople are ... Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009, 12:29 MST Word count: 205

10. An Intelligent Dialogue Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...The Journal has started a daily feature to try to answer as many questions as we can that our readers submit concerning the health policy legislation working its way through Congress. I've been assign... Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009, 10:49 MST Word count: 360

11. A Grand Compromise Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Matt Miller is one of my all-time favorite public policy writers. He used to write a regular syndicated newspaper column that the Journal published. He served in President Clinton's budget office, he ... Friday, Jul 31, 2009, 13:12 MST Word count: 522

12. Single Payer and Civilization Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...In one of my many previous lives I did some economic and market research consulting. I have also served on a few arts organizations' boards of directors. I was always struck by the need of nonprofits,... Thursday, Jul 30, 2009, 12:31 MST Word count: 589

13. There's Your Trouble Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Most banks are not Citigroup, Bank of America or Wells Fargo. Most banks are smaller and depend not on bizarre financial engineering gambles for profits but simply take money from depositors and lend ... Thursday, Jul 30, 2009, 10:31 MST Word count: 455

14. Uwe Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...If it's possible for there to be a rock star in the arcane field of health policy economics, that rock star has to be Uwe Reinhardt. He is an economics professor at Princeton and author of countless p... Monday, Jul 27, 2009, 13:33 MST Word count: 408

15. Arithmetic Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...In Monday's Business Outlook, I said that I am skeptical the proposed government run competitor to private insurance will do any better at controlling the cost of care than the insurance industry does... Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009, 10:18 MST Word count: 681

16. Complexity Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Joe Cecchi, who is stepping down as dean of the University of New Mexico School of Engineering and returning to the classroom, attended this afternoon's Chamber of Commerce-sponsored presentation by S... Thursday, Jun 04, 2009, 17:39 MST Word count: 362

17. A Different Inflation View Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...I interviewed Robert "Tim" McGee, director of macro strategy and research, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management today. In light of Bill Verant's comments about inflation yesterday, I ... Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009, 16:17 MST Word count: 276

18. Up Next: Inflation Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...I interviewed Bill Verant, the state's chief financial regulator, this afternoon about the condition of the state's banks, in light of the increase in the nation's problem banks from 90 in the first q... Tuesday, Jun 02, 2009, 16:16 MST Word count: 464

19. But Does It Work? Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...The state Legislative Finance Committee has issued an important report about economic development activity in the state. Bottom line: New Mexico has spent about a half a billion dollars in the past ei... Tuesday, Jun 02, 2009, 14:03 MST Word count: 87

20. Fool's Gold Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...In her new book, Fool's Gold, one of my favorite financial writers, Gillian Tett, describes how the credit default swap and collateralized debt obligation industry was invented at a conference of J.P.... Friday, May 29, 2009, 10:40 MST Word count: 278

21. Vocabulary Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...One of the things I love about covering business is the language business people use. For example, OPM means "other people's money," as in, "We can do the buy-out if we can get OPM." "Shadow banking" ... Thursday, May 28, 2009, 10:53 MST Word count: 334

22. More Tea Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...The increasingly conservative, Rupert Murdoch-controlled Wall Street Journal points out that the tea-baggers' fundamental thesis -- that their taxes are destined to climb because of bail-outs -- is fu... Thursday, Apr 23, 2009, 11:05 MST Word count: 96

23. Tea Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ... The Tea Baggers say they are "taxed enough already" and have staged a made-for-television revolt against the Obama economic policy, spurred on by Republican stalwarts Dick Armey and Newt Gingric... Monday, Apr 20, 2009, 14:27 MST Word count: 84

24. The Optimist Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...James Paulsen, chief investment strategist for Wells Capital Management, is always one of the more up-beat financial market and economic observers, but he's sharp and well respected. His latest take o... Thursday, Apr 16, 2009, 12:26 MST Word count: 52

25. The Latest Buzz Word Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...So far the newest buzz word doesn't appear to have shown up in the popular media, but it soon will, I'm sure. It's second derivative trading. It borrows from calculus. Believers say it tells them th... Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009, 07:32 MST Word count: 123

26. The G2 Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...The first time I heard the expression G2 it was in an interview with Donald Straszheim, former global chief economist for Merrill Lynch and a China expert. Straszheim said the solution to global econo... Monday, Apr 13, 2009, 15:03 MST Word count: 375

27. Training Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...I'm working on a story about portfolio management that should show up in Business Outlook in the next few weeks. One thing I've learned, which won't make it into the story, so I'll share it here, is t... Thursday, Apr 09, 2009, 09:51 MST Word count: 223

28. Nobody Knows Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Economist Nouriel Roubini was on Bloomberg radio making the case that the bank takeovers harm the economy by creating monstrous banks. The better solution would be to break them up into smaller banks ... Wednesday, Apr 08, 2009, 13:46 MST Word count: 353

29. The ET Economy Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...I am not a big fan of Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist and author. His book, The World Is Flat, was a fairly trite, not especially well written restatement of the benefits of global trade... Wednesday, Apr 08, 2009, 12:42 MST Word count: 394

30. Some Wisdom from Cleveland Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...This morning on the public radio program Dialogue, economist Kathryn Lavelle of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (my home town), offered a great quip and some intelligent insight about the... Monday, Apr 06, 2009, 10:25 MST Word count: 366

31. Where were the media? Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Jon Stewart of the Daily Show chewed out Jim Cramer and the financial media in general for not warning the public about the economic and investment debacle that was looming. Stewart said that Cramer, ... Friday, Apr 03, 2009, 10:09 MST Word count: 691

32. The Great Re-set Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...This recession is absolutely one for the books. Unemployment rates nationally reached 8.5 percent in March, meaning about 5.1 million Americans have lost jobs since the recession began. The credit cri... Friday, Apr 03, 2009, 09:51 MST Word count: 283

33. Out-gunned Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...George Goodman, using the pen name Adam Smith, wrote a fun book about stock market exuberance and collapse during the 1960s called The Money Game. He was probably the first of the Warren Buffett mytho... Friday, Mar 20, 2009, 14:13 MST Word count: 813

34. Compensation Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Ed Caplan, one of my favorite professors at the UNM Anderson Schools of Management, used to say that if you want to know why a firm does something, look at how the employees of the firm are compensate... Wednesday, Mar 18, 2009, 11:09 MST Word count: 292

35. The Bigger Problem Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...John Authers points out that the outrage over AIG bonuses is misplaced. The problem, he says, is not that AIG employees do not deserve the bonuses, and it's not that a trivial amount of taxpayer money... Wednesday, Mar 18, 2009, 09:48 MST Word count: 262

36. Black Swans Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...The financial press has discovered the black swan event. The idea is that some events are so rare, like the sighting of a black swan, as to be almost unbelievable. Yet, like the collapse of one financ... Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009, 07:53 MST Word count: 430

37. Victimhood Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...The financial press today is agog over Jon Stewart's attacks on Jim Cramer. Stewart is on Comedy Central. Cramer rants and raves about stocks on CNBC.I don't have cable, so I've never seen either show... Friday, Mar 13, 2009, 16:47 MST Word count: 374

38. It's the fees, stupid. Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Warren Buffett, whose name will appear often in this blog, since I am a huge fan of any rich guy who manages to avoid corporate-speak, is fond of saying that if you want to know why something happens ... Thursday, Mar 12, 2009, 13:18 MST Word count: 315

39. The Recovery Has Begun Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...I've been taking a fair amount of grief around the Journal newsroom. I said on March 1 that the economic recovery has begun, that when we get to the end of the year and we see growth in gross domestic... Thursday, Mar 12, 2009, 12:34 MST Word count: 573

40. Divergent Interests Written by: Winthrop Quigley ( Reporter's Notebook / Biz ) ...Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who was disinclined to do much in the way of regulating the financial sector, justified his approach to Congress last year by saying that he could not b... Monday, Mar 09, 2009, 09:52 MST Word count: 694

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