January 2009
24 posts
“We cannot continue to build and maintain this country if the most rewarding...”
– Are we ready to change the system?
“Wierzbicka’s research indicated that there are two key contextual elements...”
– Fair’s fair, Bart Wilson
“Yes, Google is too big to fail. If Google went down tomorrow, the loss of $100...”
– Felix Salmon
“Over the past 35 years it has seemed as if everyone in finance has wanted to be...”
– How to play chicken and lose, The Economist
“However, although the normal distribution closely matches the real world in the...”
– In Plato’s cave, The Economist
“Finance beguiled the bright and ambitious and put them to work in the trading...”
– Greed - and fear; a special report on the future of finance, The Economist
“After the news conference, Mr Markelov walked towards a Moscow metro station...”
– Deaths in Moscow, The Economist
“That is how Norwegians like to think of themselves—as good custodians of the...”
– Binge and purge, The Economist
“This is not a ‘reform’ candidate. This is a Mr. Fixit, a son of...”
– The Geither Nomination, Jesse’s Café Américain
“When some time ago a friend of mine told me that Thomas Friedman’s new book,...”
– Flat N All That, Matt Taibi
“It has been a long time in this country since the ideals of sacrifice, honor,...”
– The choice of Herakles, The Epicurean Dealmaker
“In a second study the team asked another group, this time of students who were...”
– The price of prejudice, The Economist
“The direct costs of lawsuits are only one of the drawbacks of an over-legalistic...”
– Law vs common sense, The Economist
““I inherited a recession, I’m ending on a recession,” he noted at his press...”
– George Bush’s legacy - The frat boy ships out, The Economist
“Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, arriving after the kingpin had...”
– How America Lost The War On Drugs - Ben Wallace-Wells, The Rolling Stone
“But as long as managers are paid a
percentage for managing other people’s...”
– Semyon Dukach - an MIT Blackjack Team perspective
“IN THE early 1990s America’s opinion-makers competed to outdo each other in...”
– One of America’s great public intellectuals died on Christmas Eve - Samuel Huntington
“Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the...”
– How the city hurts your brain - Jonah Lehrer, Boston Globe
“Standing in New York City, you are five hours away from being able to negotiate...”
– A World Enslaved - E. Benjamin Skinner, Foreign Policy
“In their wonderful book, Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman tell us that while...”
– Time After Time - Oren Harman, The New Republic
“The Madoff scandal echoes a deeper absence inside our financial system, which...”
– The End of the Financial World As We Know It - Michael Lewis and David Einhorn, New York Times
“There was everyone, really, who, over time, forgot that the VaR number was only...”
– Risk Mismanagement - Joe Nocera, New York Times
“America’s experiment with torture presents the Obama administration with...”
– What to do about the torturers? - David Cole, New York Review of Books
“A single entry from the Irvine Housing Blog, which shows how a person in January...”
– Boom, Bust, Repeat