Is Private Equity going the way of the buffalo? It's been a rough couple of months, but when finance is slow, cost-cutting is in high-demand. The masters of the universe are a hard bunch to keep down.
The genius of Larry Summers.
A nice profile in today's Times of the oligopoly in credit rating that is under-cited as a primary cause of the financial crisis.
This guy is good. Check out The Beatles' instrumentals.
The insidious MBA.
Would a market for organs be hard on the poor? Relative to what?
Do smoking bans save lives? Maybe.
How could increasing trade barriers increase the multiplier effect of a Keynesian stimulus? Dani Rodrik examines the issue here.
An incredible visual representation of path dependence. Correlation isn't causation, but this is pretty striking.
What would a depression look like in 2009? The lines won't be for bread and soup.
How should you optimally give? Diversification is no free lunch.
How do we reconcile the short term and the long term? Economists weigh the options.
Just how big are these bailouts? They are unprecedented.
So you want to be an entrepreneur? Good luck.
Why doesn't Detroit look like Silicon Valley?
Complexity and catastrophic impossibilities aren't limited to finance.
How credit cards became asset-backed bonds - the most recent video lesson from Marketplace.
A fascinating new project on cities.
