When Credit Card Companies Compete, You Win
Barry Nalebuff and I have a new column in Forbes (“A Market Test for Credit Cards”) which criticizes some aspects of the recent credit-card legislation as being too anti-market. Read More »
At Least the French Are Honest
After winning a stage of the Tour de France, Frenchman Thomas
Voeckler was quoted as saying, Read More »
Looking for Someone to Blame?
In an article headlined “The Man Who Crashed the World” Michael Lewis profiles Joe Cassano, the former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit. Lewis interviewed employees at the beleaguered F.P. unit and writes that most believed that “if it hadn’t been for A.I.G. F.P. the subprime-mortgage machine might never have been built, and the financial crisis might never have happened.” Read More »
Quotes Uncovered: Brides and Fruit Flies
A while back, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent research by me. Hundreds of people have responded via comments or e-mails. I am responding as best I can, a few per week. Read More »
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