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Another DealBook supplement in The New York Times appears today to the sound of tooting horns, with a basso profundo rumble in the background: "Private Equity Thrives Again, but Dark Shadows Loom." This sounds like the trailer for a horror... Continue reading
Andy Kessler has a column in The Wall Street Journal that is a breath of good sense on a subject that feels like a smoky, claustrophobic room full of angry people. Continue reading
Yves Smith over at Naked Capitalism posted on a subject that has drifted around for a number of years now: why the left no longer acts as rambunctiously as it did in the '60s. Continue reading
The Journal stirred up a small tempest with a story focused on an internal SEC report that argued the agency had used the Goldman case to distract attention from its own failures in the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme. Continue reading
Michael Skapinker in Tuesday's Financial Times returns to a favorite subject: an oath for M.B.A. grads to promise to do good. Continue reading
Charles Ferguson, director of the documentary "Inside Job," talks about why he made a film examining the causes of the financial crisis. He sees the movie as a call to arms, meant to galvanize people against a financial system he... Continue reading
It's a big upcoming week or so for the movie crowd interested in that oh-so-comprehensible subject, Wall Street. Continue reading
Oh no, not Lehman again. Not Dick Fuld, the grumpiest man alive. Not Hank Paulson, a very large William Hurt-like figure explaining, in strangled tones, failure and inaction. Not the emollient of Ben Bernanke, who may eventually have a future... Continue reading
What's he up to? President Obama's appointment of Elizabeth Warren as a White House assistant and Treasury adviser, rather than having to send her through the congressional confirmation meat grinder to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, baffles many on... Continue reading
The Deal has now officially been around for 11 years, so what has changed? Continue reading
A few days after Sept. 11 and several days before the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' demise, The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin took director Oliver Stone to the Four Seasons. Continue reading
The larger question the Richard X. Bove case raises is what are the rights of business speech, notably business analysis. Continue reading
The New York Times columnist David Brooks loves to wander among the bookstalls of academia, gathering material for one popular theory about our current condition or the other. Sometimes it's fun; occasionally it's revelatory; today, well, it's a mess. As... Continue reading
In the U.S., the ascension of Robert Diamond, the head of Barclays Capital, to run the entire British bank was a ho-hummer: reported, but not widely commented upon. After all, Diamond has been around for quite a while in New... Continue reading
Several weeks ago, Chrystia Freeland, a global editor at large at Reuters, penned a short essay in The New York Times Book Review about the "image problem" of business journalism. Appropriately enough, given the venue, Freeland tied her piece to... Continue reading
Who came up with the phrase "deal economy"? Excellent question. Who the hell knows? What I recall is that back in 1998, when we were first wrestling with what deal reporting might involve, I snatched the phrase from the air... Continue reading
We've moved. Readers fascinated by arcane information, or eager to complain, can find the new address by squinting at the tiny print at the bottom of the page. The rest of you can take my word. For a decade, world... Continue reading
The stew tastes terrible. Try some salt. Still wretched? Try some more. Still lousy? Pour the whole damn shaker in. Governance practice lies somewhere along this continuum. Governance is a marvelous idea in search of effective practice. When the idea... Continue reading
