The news cycle has shifted its focus to the 4,000th American soldier killed in Iraq, to James Carville turning all apostolic on Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton’s slightly revised version of a trip to Bosnia.
Yet I’m sitting here at work, hours past deadline, still thinking about Barack Obama’s speech on race.
You of course have …
Guy Kawasaki needs no introduction. What tech-world superstar does? I bring him up because I’ve been scanning through one of the top entrepreneur’s newer projects, a blog aggregate that’s really useful and easy to use (check out the Career aggregate here, called Career Alltop; notice WiP …
I talk to myself.
Like just now, when I opened an e-mail with the intriguing subject line: “Recruitment?” Here I am thinking, Finally! Someone in the outside world has noticed my untapped talent and seeks my services for a disgusting amount of money! But when I open it, I realize the author is offering me his services to fill the many …
This was the view from Congress Street this morning. I was a little surprised at the Hummer. Are they allowed here?
MonsterTRAK, the student division of job board Monster Worldwide, released its 2008 Entry Level Job Outlook today with some sobering news for ’08 grads. Among 1,117 employers surveyed,
59 percent of employers plan to hire 2008 graduates in the spring or summer, a decrease of 17 percent year-over-year, while 29 percent are still …
Maybe it would have been simpler just to let Bear Stearns go bankrupt.
When the Fed swept in just over a week ago to arrange a shotgun marriage between JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns, the idea was to avert a sudden collapse of the investment bank that might have caused credit markets to completely freeze up, while at the same time …
I learn some really useful things from Real Simple magazine.
That’s the publication that was at first derided as Martha Stewart Living for lazy people—until it surpassed MSL in ad pages and started racking up awards. It’s one of our sister mags, so I get to peruse it for free. And while it’s usually a breezy, brainless read for me (so …
King Banaian points out something that Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd said back in November about why he was holding up confirmation of Randall Kroszner’s re-nomination to the Federal Reserve Board:
“There’s one nomination here that would be for somebody [for] 14 years,” Dodd told reporters on a conference call.
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Women should rule the world.
That’s the assumption behind Dee Dee Myers’ new book. You know who she is: the first female White House press secretary; the blonde/brunette who delivered President Clinton’s message at the very beginning of his reign; the talking head from the weekend political shows. Turns out—as it so often does in the …
In the new issue of Time (with the Dalai Lama on the cover) is my attempt at explaining the Credit Crisis/The Big Unwind/Jenga to millions of people with better things to do than read the FT and WSJ:
It was, no question, one of the most dramatic episodes in American financial history. A famously scrappy Wall Street investment bank, Bear
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Mark Thoma points out that the Federal Reserve Board is now stocked entirely with Bush appointees, which isn’t really how the Fed is supposed to work. But he doesn’t go into why.
Fed governors serve staggered 14-year terms, so clearly the idea is to keep any one president from appointing the entire board. But nowadays Fed governors …
In this day and age of Google, I simply can’t understand why the world’s best-known database of news and legal documents is so super bad.
As any of you who has worked in academia, journalism or the law know, Lexis-Nexis has long been the go-to source for previously published information on your topic of interest. I’ve used it for years, …
