Steven Pearlstein rocks, Pulitzer committee notices

I’ve actually been meaning for a few weeks to write a post about the vagaries of what in the MSM gets noticed in the blogosphere and what does not. Pretty much every half-baked column on the Washington Post op-ed page gets subjected to a full-on linkfest, I was going to write, while the almost invariably [...]

Global financial crises bring people and nations closer together

In the news today … … the WSJ joins the hey-look-at-how-Sweden-dealt-with-its-big-financial-crisis parade (which may well have begun right here on this blog): As it happens, the U.S. already seems to be applying some of the key lessons from the Swedish crisis. The government-backed sale of investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. “was handled exactly as the [...]