- “derivatives used to be regulated pretty simply: courts wouldn't enforce the contract. you bet and they don't pay up? you're”
Posted on Bread, circuses and executive pay October 23, 2009 3:39 PM - “Thanks for the kind words! and VERY funny. There's a great body of thought out there that argues AGAINST shareholder”
Posted on Don't leave CEO Pay up to Corporate Suffrage October 23, 2009 3:35 PM - “Basically, a judge will tweak market-based valuations to reflect what she believes to be a better instrinsic value, given the”
Posted on Why Bankers Make So Much Money October 23, 2009 2:58 PM - “Maybe it's going to take 10 years of prolonged heavy unemployment numbers for people to wake up? Or maybe a”
Posted on Why Wall Street Reform is Stuck in Reverse October 23, 2009 1:31 PM - “It's interesting you bring this up. When litigants dispute the value of business in court (in bankruptcy, or during shareholder”
Posted on Why Bankers Make So Much Money October 23, 2009 1:02 PM - “AGREED 100%!”
Posted on Don't leave CEO Pay up to Corporate Suffrage October 23, 2009 11:57 AM - “well, since capital gains already enjoy lower tax rates than taxes on income one must actually work to earn, I”
Posted on The $200,000 Insult: Come to Chicago October 23, 2009 11:29 AM - “not to toot my own horn, but: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/opinion/23krugman.html?ref=opinion could do worse than agree with Paul Krugman!”
Posted on Currency Deflation is NOT Inflation October 23, 2009 11:24 AM - “if china stopped buying our debt, we'd have to raise the interest rates on t-bills to attract new customers who,”
Posted on Does Citigroup Need China? October 19, 2009 6:34 PM - “How about this: attorneys upstairs: make a ton of money attorneys downstairs: same resumes, make half the money, called "staff”
Posted on For Republicans, Wealth = Virtue: More Evidence October 19, 2009 3:01 PM - “for joe on his way to work flipping through the radio. it's a matter of finding an "expert" who's spewing”
Posted on Are Climate Change Skeptics Ignorant Or Are They Liars? October 19, 2009 2:59 PM - “This is a little incomplete, although I agree. The workers are supposed to switch to something else that pays more.”
Posted on Is Globalization Working For America? October 6, 2009 3:12 PM - “Note the countries involved: Russia, China, Japan and Brazil I can't help but think it amounts to little more than”
Posted on World Game Changer October 6, 2009 2:58 PM - “I am reminded of back in the old industrial age in England, when only the gentry got edumacated (socrates and”
Posted on All school...all the time. September 28, 2009 1:52 PM - “With the CEOs, they're not gambling with their own money. What result if they lose? Go through the revolving door”
Posted on Executive Compensation: Death by a Thousand Cuts September 27, 2009 2:26 PM - “I don't know how we're going to fix things, so long as black and white are separated in our minds”
Posted on A Little Justice September 26, 2009 5:43 PM - “Corporate "charity" giving is, of course, a joke -- and MS is no different. But the Bill and Melinda Gates”
Posted on Bogus "Generosity" by MS September 26, 2009 5:39 PM - “I wonder how the professor would respond. Perhaps she would say that because, in the olden days, courts wouldn't enforce”
Posted on Derivatives: Not new fangled; old enough to be Deregulated July 24, 2009 8:03 AM - “(1) Bankers telling us that earth's going to hell in a handbasket because of inflation if our government doesn't stop”
Posted on FORTNIGHTLY PUKE July 22, 2009 7:38 PM - “it's all their derring-do, what with the risky trades, apparently. emperor...still butt naked...”
Posted on Goldman Sachs is back, but Paulson and Geithner are not part of the story to media July 13, 2009 3:54 PM - “One can only hope he next challenges the "genuis" of Antonin Scalia.”
Posted on Franken's statement in Sotomayor hearing July 13, 2009 3:51 PM - “http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2009/06/ftas-destabilization.html for a different point of view”
Posted on Two Zelayas July 13, 2009 7:35 AM - “http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/oil-speculation/ for further reading!”
Posted on Is There Commodities Speculation Regulation In Our Futures? July 13, 2009 6:59 AM - “Rec'd There really is no agency out there whose mission is to protect the financial consumer. I mean, the non-institutional”
Posted on Frank "Disappointed" in Banks July 12, 2009 11:12 AM - “Rec'd But I agree with this comment. I can't see any reason why commodities derivative markets should behave any differently”
Posted on The Great American Speculation vs Demand Debate July 10, 2009 1:41 PM - “When enron cooked its books, everyone got upset. guess now it's okay!”
Posted on Why TARP Tanked July 9, 2009 5:04 PM - “I mean, other than the fact that the Honduran elites are all about free trade and Zelaya was not so”
Posted on Top 10 Reasons the U.S. Isn't Getting its Panties in a Bunch over Honduras July 9, 2009 3:38 PM - “http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/ an explanation.”
Posted on The banks' latest solution to toxic securities: change the wrapping paper July 9, 2009 2:21 PM - “you rabid, unrealistic and irrational feminist, you! :o)”
Posted on Anyone Remember the Fabulous Debate About Women & "Having It All"? July 9, 2009 10:22 AM
