Month: March 2009

Tears for Wagoner

Yash Gupta, the dean of the The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, is crying himself a river over the ouster of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner. Need I remind you that General Motors has lost more than $80 billion over the...

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Modest Proposal: Suppress the Physicists

In the 1940s, the physicists created hydrogen bombs. Since that did not destroy the world, they eventually migrated into finance, where they created risk and valuation models which have now broken the world economy. Before they...

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Open Thread

One indication of how badly Bush screwed things up is that things keep happening that are so bad that I never imagined they were possibilities.

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NY-20: I Have Trouble Caring

In the long run, do you care if we have another Blue Dog in Congress or not? I don’t. I find it interesting that the unions are working so hard to help Scott Murphy win tomorrow’s special election in New York’s...

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