…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…

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…