…your IQ” “169.” “Maybe you should take with Don” James watched as Sharon and Don began a discussion of elementary particle theory, astrophysics, and Ken Rogoff’s chess games. Encouraged, James…

…infrastructure improvements: the 155th Street bridge that I used to walk to games over hasn’t been widened, the FDR and the Harlem River Drive are still the same, the bridges…

…and city officials have been playing cat-and-mouse games. “Cops will search supplies and vehicles for what they call contraband,” Kevin Maley, an Occupy Boston volunteer, said. Police maintain a 24/7…

…access to top games. Not so long ago — before casinos, currency and commodities speculation, and credit default swaps became big business — U.S. courts would not enforce gambling debts,…

…and Games. And that’s without even mentioning the bravura work Stan Collender is doing there: see, for instance, this note that a deficit reduction bill with tax increases is very…

…wants protected). Relatedly, James Salt (probably h/t Felix) notes that “generous” UK banks are playing reporting games. (The US version is to deny the rework and leave the asset marked…

…And yet, except for some transfer pricing games, for the most part, tax havens simply don’t attract or internally generate such firms in large numbers. My theory – it takes…

…defense decision-making, -unravel the budget games the Pentagon and Congress love to play, -understand how to sort good weapons from bad—and avoid high cost failures, and reform the failed defense…

Gordon Adams via Capital Gains and Games takes a look at the military side of the budget that is being sidestepped by most in the deficit spending whirlwind of claims…

…benefited by denying coverage, or delaying payment. Multinationals drained the federal fisc through transfer pricing games, tax credit manipulation and other tax shelters. Oil companies polluted waters and fisheries to…