rdan Reader Bear points us to a great essay by Michael Lewis in Condi Naste Portfolio.com: In the two decades since then, I had been waiting for the end of…

Robert Waldmann is reading the article everyone is reading by Michael Lewis on what went wrong. My jaw just dropped. Long long ago, I wondered how bond rating agencies could…

…if Tim Geithner goes along with the Administration’s “no aggregates” postion,* combined with his hiring of Michael Alix to help supervise banks, it would disqualify him from being a reasonable…

…to fund procurement and personnel costs that are predictable and therefore should be placed into the regular budget, said Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff….

…commentary put it, ìby subjecting new hires and sitting U.S. attorneys to rigid ideological litmus tests.î Even though new Attorney General Michael Mukasey has appointed a federal prosecutor to investigate…

…onetime executive with Drexel Burnham Lambert — the investment bank made famous in the 1980s by the junk bond king Michael R. Milken, who later pleaded guilty to six felony…

…started by a Republican-dominated Alaska Legislature to look into Governor Palin’s conduct in seeking the termination of a State Trooper, once married to the Governor’s sister, Trooper Michael Wooten. The…

Via the sainted and gorgeous Bess Levin at Dealbreaker the erudite Felix Salmon at Portfolio.com, Michael Giberson at Knowledge Problem summarizes why even a Bush Administration initiative that might have…

Michael Perelman at Econospeak and here has thoughts on the role of the worker in economic theory I found interesting. An August 8, 2008 search of 73 economics journals collected…

…infrastructure investment. Ed Rendell, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Bloomberg, the political juggernauts in Pennsylvania, California and New York City respectively, have launched a coalition to make infrastructure a national priority….