Why did the market recover its bearings today? I’m thinking it’s because so many traders were happily playing the Euromoney Champions League of Investment Banking 2007. When I got the e-mail from the London-based financial magazine this morning announcing the new game, I figured it was some sort of investment bank fantasy league, along the [...]
I was on a panel Tuesday discussing “The Dos and Don’ts of Blogging” Tuesday at the Magazine Publishers of America’s annual digital conference. Because I am the Blogspert. Actually, no. It was because Lev Grossman was sick and I was his last-minute replacement. Business Week‘s Heather Green, who co-authors a blog about blogging (!), was [...]
The sermon at my church Sunday was partly about real estate prices. (Is this a uniquely New York thing? Or do men and women of the cloth across the land regularly invoke the housing market?) The rector, a former lawyer who actually owned New York real estate back in the 1970s, said that back in [...]
