Bill Gates wrote a story for this week’s issue of the magazine about creative capitalism—his phrase for applying market forces and business know-how to solve the world’s problems, like mass poverty. It’s one part corporate social responsibility (caring about “stakeholders,” not just shareholders), one part Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (poor people become [...]
Mark Zandi, the co-founder and chief economist of Moody’s Economy.com, stopped by on Thursday afternoon. He was here to promote his new book, Financial Shock: A 360° Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis, and Barbara and I will get to that later. But he also moonlights as [...]
Yeah, it’s from Newsweek, but this saga of driving a Hummer in LA is just too good not to link to: After burning a gallon of gas every eight miles, our intrepid car reviewer Tara Weingarten and Business Editor David Jefferson stopped at an outdoor café in the trendy Silver Lake neighborhood, just down the [...]
