Economy
A Vikram Pandit Reality Check
And so the obituaries for the five-year tenure of Citigroup’s troubled Chief Executive Officer must now be written. While inevitably there will be those who will cite Pandit’s “righting of the ship” and “right sizing” of Citigroup, allow me to provide a dose of perspective. READ MORE >>
Bill Clinton: Not *That* Off-Message
The Lousy Jobs Number & Obama's Original Sin
Your Tax Dollars At Work, Wall St. Edition
Trash. Just the sound of the word brings to mind rotten food, mountainous landfills, and general noxiousness. But what if a city turned this image on its head? What if trash became a city resource? What if landfills became a relic of the past? READ MORE >>
Yet Another Problem With JP Morgan
The Squid and the (London) Whale
My Day in Mitt Romney’s Book Club
Like any Woody Allen fan, I’ve been waiting my entire adult life to re-enact the Marshall McLuhan scene from “Annie Hall.” Today, Mitt Romney and Jonathan Chait finally gave me the excuse I needed. READ MORE >>
Why the White House Is Sweating JP Morgan
Why the Stimulus Was Smaller Than It Looked
The Washington Post had a nice piece out Monday on the way state spending cuts have crimped the economy these past few years, and on the difficulties Obama encountered trying to mitigate that problem. As the piece reports: READ MORE >>
