Skip to content

Posts by: Rocky Vega

Author Image for Rocky Vega

Rocky Vega

Rocky Vega is publisher of The Daily Reckoning. Previously, he was founding publisher of UrbanTurf and RFID Update, which he operated from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, and associate publisher of FierceFinance. He specialized in direct marketing at MBI, facilitated MIT Sloan School of Management programs, and has been featured on CBS. Vega graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he was on the board of Let’s Go Publications and directed business programs involving McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Harvard Business School faculty. He is a graduate of the Stockholm School of Economics.

  1. Daily Reckoning

    See Mainstream Media Ridiculed for Refusing to Acknowledge Ron Paul • August 17, 2011

    In case you’ve somehow missed it – which is easy enough to do given the explicit lack of coverage — Dr. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) second-place finish at the Ames Straw Poll seems to have been practically blacked out by mainstream media. At least Jon Stewart bothers to take great comedic pleasure in calling reporters to …Read more…

  2. Daily Reckoning

    New Study Informs Burning London That Austerity Breeds Social Unrest • August 12, 2011

    The title of this post could just have easily been “Study Supports What we Already Know,” but that was probably a little too vague. Of course austerity breeds social unrest, that’s a bit like saying smoking cigarettes often leads to lung cancer. Perhaps it’s to be expected that researchers take a bit longer, in this …Read more…

  3. Daily Reckoning

    Dominique Strauss-Kahn From IMF to Rikers Island, Perhaps an Input Upgrade • August 11, 2011

    While he’s not due back in court until August 23rd, the trial surrounding former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn — who is charged with sexual assaulting a hotel maid — has become a circus, as would be expected. The maid in the case, Nafissatou Diallo, who was working at the Sofitel New York …Read more…

  4. Daily Reckoning

    The (Infrastructure) Bank That “Abandons the Bought Congress” • August 11, 2011

    Dylan Ratigan, formerly host of CNBC’s Fast Money and now host of MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show, created quite the spectacle yesterday… freaking out in a surreal, but sublime, fashion about the failures of the president and Congress. In a tirade where he refers to “10s of billions of dollars being extracted from the USA… …Read more…

  5. Daily Reckoning

    There Is No Recovery… It’s All Been Just More Debt • August 10, 2011

    There’s plenty for DR readers to disagree with in this newly-released video from the Post Carbon Institute which examines whether or not we’ve entered a “new economic reality.” It’s especially timely given current swings in financial markets… including this morning’s 400-point free fall in the Dow (so far)… and the ongoing correction in the economy. …Read more…

  6. Daily Reckoning

    Zakaria: US Policy is Sad Mixture of Political Payoffs and Ideological Positioning • August 9, 2011

    With the number of of government officials… and at least one mega-billionaire… taking potshots at Standard and Poor’s over the US debt downgrade, it’s appealing to hear a few more voices emerging and willing to recognize the ongoing debt debacle for what it is, and even at the expense of perhaps somehow not sounding patriotic. …Read more…

  7. Daily Reckoning

    Reformed Broker’s True/False on Wall Street After Downgrade • August 8, 2011

    After another 630-plus nosedive of a day for the Dow –  the major market indices’ most negative day since 2008′s financial crisis — it was refreshing to see a dose of levelheadedness over at The Reformed Broker. Today, Joshua Brown served up a thoughtful eight-part true/false quiz on how he makes sense of the current …Read more…