by cactus Wasting the Plenty Via Atrios, this piece of bad news from Michael Kranish at the Boston Globe: The federal agency that insures bank deposits, which is asking for…

…burst. Of course there is one response titled: Stop the Bailouts. Can you guess the ideology? (Hint.) Calculated Risk highlighted STEPHEN S.ROACH (Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia), A. MICHAEL SPENCE…

Robert Waldmann Michael Kinsley suspects that the US government might decide to inflate its debt away. “Just three or four years of currency erosion at, say, 10 percent a year…

…Warren Buffett famously observed (roughly): “If a good manager goes to a bad company, it is generally the reputation of the manager that is changed.”** And even Michael Porter, who…

…David Rousseau, he said. Michael DuVally, a Goldman spokesman, declined to comment. ‘A New Reality’ Short sellers borrow securities to sell, betting their value will decrease. Credit-default swaps, conceived to…

…to Dallas; he’s got a job “oversee[ing] the construction of a presidential library.” Maybe he can hire Michael D. “Heckuva Job” Brown to work with him on this one, too….

…during Sir Goldsmiths testimony: …These thinkers were telling us–in fact I was at [Renaissance] with President Clinton when Michael [Porter] from Harvard was there and he was still lecturing on…

…[Michael H. Krimminger, the F.D.I.C.’s special adviser to the chairman for policy], is that the contracts are rarely as constricting as investors and servicers have been portraying them. They do…

…person of Michael Cannon at Cato admit the fundamental truth: successful government social programs fatally undercut future political success for the Right. Cannon: Blocking Obama’s Health Plan is Key to…

…done that — sortof) Interior Richard Waldmann (he’s my brother) Energy Michael O’Hare (really the whole RBC community) Commerce Merge with Treasury Veterans Max Cleland Transportation Duncan Black Education Claudia…