Entries tagged "Media Maneuvers"

Andrew Ross Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail'

Andrew Ross Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail' is a big, ambitious book that tries to establish by sheer accumulation of detail and anecdote primacy to explain what exactly happened amid the crisis.

David Carr and the death of aspiration

David Carr buries the business magazines in a shallow grave in The New York Times Monday, but there are any number of reasons to be skeptical of this broad and gloomy diagnosis.

Greg Zuckerman on 'The Greatest Trade Ever'

Greg Zuckerman adds another volume to to the growing stack of tomes on the financial crisis -- a phenomenon that's beginning to resemble its own bubble.

PE turnaround at Toys 'R' Us overlooked

Private equity firms get the short shrift from mainstream media, which sees the world in black and white where PE firms are villains.

Debating the question of bank size

The arguments for bigger is better in banking have long lost most of their persuasive power.

Gasparino calls Krawcheck a 'disaster'

Writing for Forbes on the topic of BofA CEO succession, Charles Gasparino explains how Krawcheck has been campaigning for the job, and why she shouldn't get it.

Why Fortune loves Charlie Rose

Did you watch Charlie Rose last night? According to the latest issue of Fortune magazine, you probably did.

Sorkin on what happened after Lehman

The excerpt from Andrew Ross Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail' is now on the newsstands in the new issue of Vanity Fair. Because it's an excerpt, it's a little hard to tell how much it reflects the book.

Kessler on Lehman and the meritocracy

Andy Kessler has written a Lehman Brothers piece on Forbes.com where he emphasizes little-discussed aspects of life on Wall Street that outsiders rarely acknowledge.

Lehman Brothers' nonlessons

The real lesson of Lehman and of all these recaps may be that we've learned very little at all.

For law firms, the times are a-changin'

In an effort to avoid sinking like a stone, traditionally conservative law firms are taking some dramatic steps to stay afloat in these changing times.

The WSJ tries to fix our mistakes

A Wall Street Journal column is another of a seemingly endless number of attempts to apply behavioral finance to personal finance.

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