My friend Ellen McGirt has a cool article on Al Gore in in the July Fast Company (which I know about because she hegemonically posted a link to it on her Facebook page). An excerpt: Since his nonelection, Gore has become a millionaire many times over, bringing him, in financial terms, shoulder to shoulder with [...]
Today brings us the economic-policy chapter of the big Washington Post series on how Dick Cheney runs America. It’s not nearly as dramatic or sinister-seeming as yesterday’s installment on torture ‘n’ stuff. Economic policy is like that, I guess. One big takeaway is that economic policy in the Bush administration is run not by the [...]
John Authers in the FT makes the point (subscription required) that the great flight from risk that people with respect for market history have been predicting for a while now still hasn’t come to pass: Angela Montero, of Société Générale, pointed out last week that Mexican bonds yielded 5.85 per cent. 10-year bonds in Colombia, [...]
