Holiday extravagance at Samsung

Okay, so I said I wasn’t going to be posting much. But this is too good not to share: I got a DHL Express Letter the other day sent straight from “Samsung Main Building” in Seoul. What could be so important that the Korean electronics giant would spend $30 or $40 to get to me? [...]

Work slowdown at the Curious Capitalist

I haven’t been posting much lately, and won’t post much (if at all) over the next few weeks because I’m taking some time off to finally really and truly finish the book I’ve been working on for the past few years. The book is tentatively titled The Myth of the Rational Investor, and it grew [...]

Mastercard wins a big legal (and soccer) victory

Unlike my friend and fellow CNNMoney blogger Roger Parloff, I don’t spend a lot of time reading legal documents. But I’m still pretty sure that the “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” issued last night by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska (and passed on to me this morning by a friend) in the [...]

Can you make a great business magazine without socialists?

The American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, has just relaunched its magazine (formerly known as–get this–”American Enterprise”) as The American. The editor is James K. Glassman, who will never be able to escape the fact that he co-authored the book Dow 36,000 in 1999 but is otherwise a pretty great journalist of both [...]