New York City and its suburbs are all abuzz today about Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Earth Day proposals. Among them is to slap a toll on drivers who dare to trek into Manhattan below 86th Street. (For my friends with the good fortune to live far, far away, most anyone who drives into town is heading below 86th Street.)
I care, because …
Karen Tumulty over at Swampland has a question (spurred by this Washington Post article on John Edwards’ work for Fortress Investment Group) on politicians’ ties to big hedge fund and private equity money:
Is this going to be an issue as the campaign moves forward? My own business writing days ended long ago, when derivatives were still
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Economist Brad DeLong, as part of his long-running campaign to persuade the world that journalists are flawed (and many are; unlike academic economists, who are right about everything and also smell great!), had a post Saturday tearing into the Economist for allegedly mischaracterizing the neoconservative movement. Brad apparently thinks …
Michael Kinsley’s column in Time this week is about campaign finance, among other things. I know this not because I read it in the magazine: Curious Capitalist Jr. had a fever Friday and Mrs. CC was out of town, so I didn’t go into the office and therefore do not have a copy. I got to Kinsley’s column instead via Ezra Klein’s blog. Which …
Sorry, the excitement is getting to me.
I spent Thursday in Washington listening to members of the Bush administration explain themselves to the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum (a club to which I, absurdly enough, belong). The deal was that most of the chats were off the record. I’d feel worse about adhering to that agreement if anything truly revelatory had …
The country’s biggest job board is plunging into the vidumé (thanks, Gerry) scene. This week it announced plans to “be the first major online job site to launch a new video résumé service, enabling job seekers to enhance their online applications with videos highlighting their qualifications, accomplishments and other key …
My column in the current Time is about Realogy CEO Henry Silverman’s return to the private equity world he left almost 15 years ago (he was a partner at Blackstone, and before that at Saul Steinberg’s Reliance Group Holdings). It took most of the space I had just to explain who Silverman is and why he matters, so I don’t quote him much …
My new column is about the latest twist in the remarkable career of Realogy CEO Henry Silverman. It begins:
On the morning of April 19, the private-equity firm Apollo Management acquired Realogy–the company behind real estate brokerages Coldwell Banker, Century 21 and ERA. It was not, by modern standards, a huge transaction: the sale
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I’ve recently started getting press releases from companies touting how green or how charitable they are. They’re not just honking their horns as good corporate citizens; they’re claiming these strategies help them recruit.
Take this notice I got from Deloitte & Touche yesterday. It began by noting the coming “talent crunch” due to the …
I’m spending today in Washington getting “briefed” by various Bush Administration types as part of something called the Young Global Leaders U.S. Policy Roundtable. Because, dontcha know, I am a Young Global Leader. It’s all supposed to be off the record except for talks by Condi Rice and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs …
Wow, life in Time‘s D.C. office is just so, well, thrilling. Here’s the bureau chief reacting just minutes ago to Ana Marie Cox’s admonition that he needs to post on Swampland more often. (Actually, he’s reacting to me saying I’m about to take his picture with my cameraphone, but he reacted the same way to Ana about five seconds …
