-- Jonathan Lebed: Stock Manipulator, S.E.C. Nemesis -- and 15 - Michael Lewis, The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2001 ( Read more... )

-- The Secret Life of Auden - Edward Mendelson, The New York Review of Books, Mar. 20, 2014 ( Read more... )

-- How Top Executives Live - Duncan Norton-Taylor, Fortune Magazine, 1955 ( Read more... )

So a recent NYT article has been circulating among friends. And it seems yet another attempt by a publication to try to address the malady of this generation. Why is it we've moved back in with our parents? Why are we taking longer to marry? Why have we given ourselves over to wanderlust? All these questions are asked with the curiosity of visitors ( Read more... )

French President Sarkozy calls for a restoration of capitalism's "moral dimension" at Davos 2010

and

And the Senate reappoints Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

That's it. I'm moving to Europe asap. They're sensible over there.

::insert deal with the devil/sleep with the enemy analogy here::

And it makes absolute sense. I forget exactly how that Kennedy quote went with the Chinese character for crisis meaning danger and opportunity or something like that, but it appears the bad guys certainly got that memo.

Cayman Islands fears as debts grow - BBC

Unintended consequences of going after the tax havens. I find the Turks and Caicos situation astounding. I know the place is kinda small but to have "no known financial assets of any kind" and owe $133m"?! That's...why, that's just criminal!

So I was reading the OECD's primer on money laundering (how telling that this is how I get my rocks off), and in addition to the realization that I would have a blast working for them, I wondered what their policy recommendations would do in tandem with a coordinated phased drug decriminalisation policy regime. I mean, think about it. Squeezing the ( Read more... )

Uh oh.

and

So do I, BBC, so do I. Too bad it's not going to happen anytime soon.

But on a more somber note Yale Med student Annie Le, a Yale grad student who was to be married today has been missing for several days, and police report they've found a body but have stopped short at outright identifying it as Ms. Le. This is horrible news, ( Read more... )

This from BaselineScenario.com confirms that we can only expect more of the same from our vaunted economic policymakers ( Read more... )