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 McCain
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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 guess kind of …
As the mercury hovers around 100 this afternoon, my colleague Jim Poniewozik over at Tuned In writes in an e-mail:
So telecommuting is supposed to be much better for the environment, right? But is it on high-energy use days like today? Working at home, I’m not using fuel to commute, but then again the subway is running regardless. And
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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. …
In my region today, the temperature is slated to hit 100. Degrees. Fahrenheit. That’s, like, steel-mill hot. That’s cereal-for-dinner hot. That’s I’d-rather-die-than-wear-pantyhose hot.
I’m working from home today as I count down to the birth of my child later this week. But if I were heading into the office, I’ll tell you what I …
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 to “the very edge of
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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 was going …
Reader Jenn writes:
I just read your “What (Not) to Wear to Work”…I’m located in San Diego and a handful of employees here recently completed last weekend’s Rock and Rock Marathon (including our President). As such, “dressy” sandals have been permitted in the office, until today. Today, one my colleagues lost her toenail while
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When you attend a business event preceded by a grossly distended belly, other working moms feel compelled to share notes. I heard some interesting tales from the womb yesterday at this fancy breakfast I attended.
One executive told me that she was pregnant while she worked at IBM in the ’70s. At the time, she says, the unwritten policy …
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 that had begun in the early 1980s was about to
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I went to a fancy breakfast today. It was a ceremony honoring the finalists of something called the Magazine Mentor of the Year award, given by the Magazine Publishers Association. There were cut peonies and a fabulous buffet and lots of good-looking magaziney people in suits. Among the finalists were serious luminaries in my industry: …
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 Time‘s PR folks …
