MasterCard released a report today ranking the 50 most important “centers of commerce” around the world. Here’s the top ten: 1. London 2. New York 3. Tokyo 4. Chicago 5. Hong Kong 6. Singapore 7. Frankfurt 8. Paris 9. Seoul 10. Los Angeles I had breakfast this morning with Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, the Singapore-based MasterCard economic [...]
A while back, Karen Tumulty linked on Swampland to a Washington Post article about John Edwards’ ties to hedge fund operator Fortress Investment Group and asked me to comment on whether we should care. I said we should, although I couldn’t really tell how much, and both Karen and I got some grief from commenters [...]
The latest guest blogger over on Swampland, Democratic political consultant Dave “Mudcat” Saunders, has been stirring things up bigtime with his condemnation of the “Metropolitan Opera Wing” of the Democratic Party. I initially thought this was because his loyalties lay with the party’s notoriously combative Lyric Opera of Chicago Wing. But no, it turns out [...]
