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More on Carried Interest

…an investment firm in Geneva,” who worte an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal todayh on the issue. See Rutledge, Congress’s Carried Interest Tax Folly, Wall St. J., May 24,…

Duffie on speculative trading

by Linda Beale Duffie on speculative trading (Part one of a series) In today’s Wall St. Journal, Darrell Duffie, a finance professor at Stanford’s business school, argues “In Defense of…

The Only Good Crowding-Out Argument

…think the big Wall Street bonuses are a fine idea. Without them, Wall Streeters will all look for other jobs. Do we really want these greedy incompetent clowns building our…

PONZI PREDICTS

…all of major financial institutions. In the long run, we would be better off without many of those institutions. My buddies on Wall St. used to tell me that they…

Late Working-Age Suicides Rising

…of this, though it would be easy to say that the members of the previously secure age group have since 1999 been hitting the wall like warblers in migration time….

…an unprecedented effort here to throw a spotlight on what it views as a good news story, arranging wall-to-wall interviews between journalists and normally invisible White House aides in the…