Elizabeth Warren’s Financial Product Safety Commission

Harvard Law professor and bankruptcy guru Elizabeth Warren has a really interesting proposal out today in the journal Democracy (I first heard about yesterday in Gretchen Morgenson’s column in the NYT): It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is [...]

ExxonMobil’s investing choices and peak oil

A reader named Greg from Sunnyvale, Calif., writes, regarding my column about how ExxonMobil is devoting a significantly smaller share of its resources to developing new sources of oil than it did back in the late 1970s and early 1980s: I was thinking that, as a journalist, you might want to investigate an alternative explanation [...]