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Why the Midterms Might Not Be So Bad for Dems
How growth could change the midterms.
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Business
Why Companies Now Favor Cash
Why the return of a cash economy is good for consumers and businesses alike.
7 min read
News
Prof. Gingrich’s Faulty History Lesson
One of the strangest, and yet most predictable, comments about the passage of health care came from former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Gingrich told The Washington Post that Obama, by pushing for health care, “will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years” by pushing through Great Society programs.
2 min read
Business
Health Care Debate: Don’t Short Obama’s Political Stock
Why political futures markets got the health care bill so wrong.
4 min read
Business
Union Atlantic: Merging Financial Fact and Fiction
An overly aggressive banker, fishy accounting, and Wall Street wrongdoing—those are the elements featured in ‘Union Atlantic,’ a new novel by Adam Haslett.
6 min read
Business
Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, Rock Star?
Why America’s second-wealthiest man is sporting a wig, tattoos, and a bandana in a new television commercial.
3 min read
Business
Credit Default Swaps: Who Wins If The US Goes Bankrupt?
Why does anyone buy insurance policies that pay off only if the U.S. goes bankrupt?
5 min read
Business
How Expensive Will The Obama Health Care Plan Really Be?
The bogus Republican claim that Obamacare is a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy.
3 min read
Business
The Fed’s AIG Strategy Is Paying Off
AIG might just pay the Fed back.
4 min read
News
Fiscal Follies
Some people have ideas about how to change things in Washington. And some people like to give the appearance of having ideas about how to change things in Washington.
4 min read
Business
Olympics: Why America Won So Many Gold Medals
Why the economic model predicting Olympic medal counts drastically underestimated the U.S. haul.
5 min read
Business
How Vail Is Making Skiing More Energy Efficient
How one ski resort cleaned up its act.
4 min read
Business
Toyota and Hummer: Too Big to Succeed?
As Toyota and Hummer have learned, growing too fast can be a dangerous thing.
3 min read
Business
Economy & Wall Street: How To Save Capitalism
Can a company’s profit motive really align with the public interest? Historically, yes.
7 min read
News
Economic Stimulus: Is It Working One Year Later?
After three hundred and sixty-five days and $787 billion, the economy is picking up. Kind of.
4 min read
Business
Olympics: Economists Predict The Medal Count
An economist predicts the medal counts for the Vancouver Olympics.
7 min read
Business
Why the U.S. Economy Isn’t Half Bad
Maybe we aren’t doing so badly.
4 min read
Business
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ‘On the Brink’
Daniel Gross reviews the former treasury secretary’s new memoir of the near global financial collapse.
6 min read
Business
How Boards of Directors Are Killing U.S. Companies
How inept boards of directors are ruining once great American companies.
8 min read
Business
Davos: Betting Against What’s Hot At The World Economic Forum
Why you should bet against whatever idea is hot at the World Economic Forum
4 min read
News
Davos Dispatches: Efficient-Markets Theory, Disproved!
This afternoon, while walking into the Congress Center, the main hub of Davos, I noticed a piece of gray paper on the floor. It looked like it might be currency of some sort—certainly not a dollar, but perhaps Swiss francs or something else.
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