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Full price of oil

…a monster gas-guzzler up to the pump — and they’re perfectly happy to collect our cash which they can then use to cherry-pick our prime assets. So expect no summer…

TO MOM

May you have a very happy day!…

Call my people…

…of course, knowing that X’s calendar is incredibly complicated, but I am happy to try to offer times if you give me some of your calendar constraints. Now wait a…

The Shape of the Future

…leading in turn to Goldilocks after about 1989. The Goldilocks environment was so benign it appeared to be a long sequence of happy surprises. Goldilocks was aptly named: low volatility…

Before netting, before zero sum ownership society

…trades because they were out charging fine dinner and wine meals, or considered it cute, or wonderfully precocious, and not affecting the real economy. Partly true, but nobody is happy….

Credit Crisis for Kindergarteners

…promised,” is heard over and over among the children, amidst lots of stomping and fighting. Until recently, theirs was such a happy home, but now the lawn is overgrown, broccoli…

Guantanamo and defense

…tribunals, told The Associated Press he will appear at a hearing for Salim Ahmed Hamdan. “I expect to be called as a witness … I’m more than happy to testify,”…

Some legislators saw the dilemma

…them happy. It was unsurprising, then, that the OCC leapt to attention when the national banks asked it to pre-empt the Georgia-like subprime laws on the grounds that they conflicted…

Opus 1, Second movement: On taxation

…regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but…

Subprime becomes prime time lawsuits?

…would like to muzzle subpoena-happy New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to buy time and make this all go away. Cuomo is just inches from getting what he needs to…