… it would make really funny-looking cars. Another in my continuing series of vacation photos, this one of what used to be a 1993 Ford Thunderbird:
Stress makes you stupid
…or at least it does me. When I’m overwhelmed by deadlines, I say and do some dumb things. I alternately babble or go mute at meetings, I snap at my husband when he calls, and I barely suppress murderous feelings toward tourists who block my path in Times Square. Even my body becomes unintelligent, refusing to digest food or succumb to …
The Curious Capitalist on vacation
I’m on vacation this week (not so sure about next week just yet). It’s a visit-the-family vacation, not a tropical island vacation, so I’ll be living in the civilized world and reading the paper and may feel compelled to write things here occasionally. Even if I don’t, though, I will post vacation photos. This is under the Santa Monica pier:
India is just trying to reclaim its former position of global economic primacy
From an essay by historian William Dalrymple in Time Asia (thanks to Matthew Rees for the tip):
At their heights during the 17th century, the subcontinent’s fabled Mughal emperors were rivaled only by their Ming counterparts in China. For their contemporaries in distant Europe, they were potent symbols of power and wealth. In Milton’s
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Young women earn more; angry women earn less
Some weird news on the salary front for working women (thanks to Karen Tumulty of Swampland for the poke). The New York Times reports on new Census data today that shows young women in urban areas seem to be outearning their boy counterparts.
The analysis was prepared by Andrew A. Beveridge, a demographer at Queens College, who first
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And another thing: shaky markets
I also wrote the opening mini-essay in this week’s magazine (we here at Time call it “The Moment”). It’s online here, but it’s so short that I might as well just post the whole thing:
It was the stock market’s worst month in three years. But the events of the last few days of July felt more ominous and potentially earthshaking than that
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New column: China syndrome
I have a column in the new Time, with a New Orleans floodwall on the cover, and online here. It begins:
The Chinese executives were in New York City for a week of business-school classes. Even before economist Glenn Hubbard–dean of Columbia Business School and former chief of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers–finished
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Social networking overload
Like a lot of people I know, I maintain an increasingly sprawling presence online. Over the years I’ve owned and discarded numerous e-mail addresses; I now have one for personal mail, another for work. I’ve got a personal web site. There’s my blog on my employer’s site, and my poorly frequented blog on my own. People can connect to me on …
Thinking more subversive thoughts about whether capital gains really deserve a tax break
A few weeks ago, The Epicurean Dealmaker declared that:
If any of you PE knuckleheads piss off Congress so much with your lame and pathetic special pleading that they decide to eliminate capital gains tax treatment altogether, you’d better find a deep, dark hole to run and hide in.
I don’t know about Congress, but I do know that this …
Hedging the risk of losing your job to India
Genpact, the former GE division that got the whole India call-center thing going a decade ago, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. Worried that your job might be moved to Gurgaon? Buy a few shares of G and prepare to profit from your own misfortune!
Now if only I’d thought to hedge the risk of working in old-line media …
NYC morning: a temple to Apple and a healthcare-reform killer
I ate breakfast this morning at the Regency Hotel, famed morning meeting place of New York’s political movers and shakers. I’d never eaten there before, and was very excited until I realized that I have no idea what most of New York’s political movers and shakers look like. My only positive IDs were of Manhattan Borough President Scott …
The Rick Mishkin Steak n Shake Connection
The W$J has an article Wednesday about the new financial disclosures from the members of the Federal Reserve Board. (The disclosures themselves don’t appear to be online yet, but should eventually show up here.) The headline refers to Chairman Ben Bernanke’s “conservative mix of assets,” but my favorite bit of information came at the end …