Archive for October, 2010
Why France Matters, plus…
[This post's "possibly irrelevant image" is a detail from the cover of the new edition of Real World Banking and Finance, which will be printed in the next week or so. Place your order today! Isn't the "Eye of Providence" creepy? I thought it worked, because banking and finance is a little creepy too (and ...Read more.
Foreclosures, Temps, Freelancers, etc.
(1) The House that Set off the National Furor over Faulty Foreclosures: That’s how a great article in last Thursday’s New York Times describes the house in the photo above, owned by Nicolle Bradbury. Everyone should read this article in full. As I have mentioned in an earlier post, the national media can’t seem to ...Read more.
Foreclosure Trouble, etc.
(1) “Foreclosuregate” and the too-big-to-fail banks: The blogosphere is abuzz about the trouble the big banks seem to be in with respect to foreclosures. What’s gotten people going is the scandal that has been called “foreclosuregate” and “the Robo Signing Scandal,” wherein the big banks have evidently falsified or fabricated missing paperwork in order to ...Read more.
Various items
(1) Emmanuel Saez wins a MacArthur fellowship. With co-author Thomas Piketty, Saez has done great research on income inequality in the United States. Read about the fellowship here. An accessible version of their research here. Who knew he was only 37? I guess younger than me no longer counts as particularly young, alas… (2) D&S ...Read more.
More on Rich People; Islamophobia at Harvard
(1) Follow-up on yesterday’s post: If you didn’t get your fill of the controversy about the whiny U. of Chicago law professor, check out two more good posts today from Brad DeLong, here and here. The second one has a bunch of links to other commentary on the affair. The New Rule for the Internets ...Read more.
