Judith Regan shoulda been a New Yorker writer

I didn’t know quite what to make of the news Wednesday that former superpublisher Judith Regan was suing HarperCollins for being really mean to her. Happily, I’ve got Roger Parloff to think (and read the filing) for me: Regan’s [complaint] reads like one of those humor pieces in The New Yorker, where it not-so-gradually dawns [...]

Libertarianism has its limits, and access to the McRib sandwich is one of them

My post from Madison a few weeks ago about the McRib and world peace has enabled me to enter the elite world of McRib bloggers, and while reading this fascinating post by a McRib-obsessed guy named Andy Fox (no relation, as far as I know) I came across this even more fascinating statement (in the [...]

The Canadian case for a weak dollar

From a report sent out this morning by Merrill Lynch North American economist David Rosenberg (who is Canadian): We don’t seem to recall that the economy or market backdrop in Canada (and New Zealand or Australia for that matter) were being severely damaged when the Canadian dollar (the loonie) endured its multi-year downward adjustment through most of [...]