After getting lured last week into critiquing the collection of half-informed non sequiturs that is Ben Stein’s New York Times column (in the comments to a post on Danish killer slugs, of course), I was thrilled to see that I will never have to waste my time on such matters again because Felix Salmon is [...]
Back in the 1980s, lots of serious-minded people loudly lamented the fact that Wall Streeters were making more money than the corporate executives, and that all the smartest young MBAs were going to Salomon Brothers instead of Procter & Gamble. Then came the 1990s, when corporate CEOs made more than investment bankers, and all the [...]
My latest column is up online and in the issue of Time with the V-22 Osprey on the cover. It begins: Spend some time in the hotels, restaurants and even newsstands of Western Europe these days, and as an American you understand pretty quickly that you’re poorer than you once were. To be precise, you’re [...]
