…it that ESOs provide incentives to attract and retain good employees and for some odd reason cannot be costs. But wait a minute – the Giants attracted Barry Bonds from…

…you”) is a hilarious classic. Best Design: Ampersand won last year. Blah3 seems to be giving Barry some competition this time around. Best New Blog: I don’t remember whether they…

…advanced. In 1964, Barry Goldwater cracked the Democratic lock on the South. In 1968 and 1972, Republicans established a permanent advantage in presidential races. In the big bang of realignment,…

From Barry Ritholz and The Big Picture via Investingchannel is this piece on a Proposal for New Hedge Fund Fee Structure: One of my pet peeves is the way that…

Barry Ritholz offers this observation: One of my biggest complaints about the media is the lack of accountability. People say things on TV in print an on radio, and then…

…risk does. In fact, legislators’ misunderstanding of the law’s true incentives may have contributed to the severity of the crisis. Barry Ritholz differs: The thought process behind this is that…

…a new paper from Barry Z. Cynamon of the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis and Steven M. Fazzari of Washington University: Inequality, the Great Recession, and Slow Recovery. Nice…

…and the poor are usually those most vulnerable to the ensuing crisis. After the Asian crisis of 2007-08, Barry Eichengreen of UC-Berkeley analyzed some of the other linkages that could…

…invest in the sector, said Jim Barry, head of BlackRock’s infrastructure investment group. “After let’s call it a decade of promise, I think we are actually beginning to see that…

…to invest in riskier assets (and we do remember how that turned out don’t we ?). But aside from that, I draw a blank *”so I lied” -Dave Barry 1998…