The last time the Netherlands played Italy in a game that mattered, I missed all but the tragic ending. It was the semifinals of the 2000 European championships, and I had somehow gotten the idea that it was an evening game. The Curious Capitalist family (although I guess we weren’t the Curious Capitalist family yet [...]
After reading (and watching part of) the speech on the economy that Barack Obama gave in Raleigh on Monday, and listening on a conference call with Obama advisers Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman, I churned out this little piece for Time.com: When it comes to economic policy, Barack Obama’s standard campaign crack that a John [...]
This morning I went to a panel discussion titled “Microfinance: Business or Charity?” at the Council on Foreign Relations. A woman from ACCION International asked me if I normally cover the topic. I said that I cover business and economics more generally. To which she said: “And now we’re in business and economics.” Which I [...]
A leftover from the family weekend in Charlottesville. This shot of Mr. Jefferson’s Rotunda was taken just before a hokey light show, which substituted for the traditional UVa reunions fireworks because, the word was, there wasn’t enough money for fireworks. To say Curious Capitalist Jr. was disappointed is a pretty big understatement. Recession is hell.
I wrote this for Time.com Thursday: The race for the Great Fed Second Guess of 2008 is now well under way: First out of the blocks was former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, who worried aloud in April that forcing and partially financing the takeover of ailing investment bank Bear Stearns had taken the Fed [...]
I’m off today, visiting lovely (albeit scorching hot) Charlottesville for Mrs. Curious Capitalist’s XXth Reunion (I figure I might get in trouble for disclosing the actual number; update: Mrs. CC points out that my attempt at nondisclosure failed, given that it is her XXth Reunion). But I forgot to tell anybody at work that I [...]
So I’ve already said what’s in it, but now my new column is up online and in the dead-tree issue of Time with the Prozac on the cover. It begins: Eleven years ago, after doing a lot of studying and a lot of thinking, Richard Rainwater convinced himself that the long decline in oil prices [...]
Billionaire investor Richard Rainwater has turned bearish on oil. Only temporarily bearish, mind you, but it still struck me as big enough news to write my column about this week. It’s not online just yet (update: now it is), but in the interest of serving this blog’s readers with the freshest possible news (and because [...]
After our meet-and-greet, the Oracle of Oil sat down to answer a few questions on camera:
T. Boone Pickens was just here this afternoon. There’ll be more on that later, including some video from Barbara. But anyway, we were all talking about how he now owns 10 million shares of Yahoo but doesn’t really know what Yahoo does (he’s piggybacking on Carl Icahn’s campaign to throw out the current management). He [...]
