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The shiny glint of Quartz

How many times does business and financial journalism need to be reinvented? That's Friday's end-of-the-week cud-chewing question, stirred up by a visit to Atlantic Media's under-construction business website, dubbed Quartz. Continue reading

Posted on June 1, 2012 1:41 PM

Maybe nein, maybe ja

You'll notice that nearly every story about the European crisis ends on a question. Until that stops, the crisis will continue. Continue reading

Posted on May 30, 2012 1:14 PM

The private equity debate: That '70s show

The fallacy of both attackers and defenders of private equity is the belief that we somehow live in static times. Continue reading

Posted on May 24, 2012 1:09 PM

Glass-Steagall and private equity: Fact and fiction

Two NYT columns offered some pushback to Democratic talking points. Andrew Ross Sorkin took aim at the deep belief that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was somehow key to the financial crisis. And David Brooks offered a different interpretation of the historical facts that led to the rise of the LBO as a staple of American capitalism. Continue reading

Posted on May 22, 2012 12:07 PM

The carnival of catastrophism and its critics

Catastrophe is in the air, like this early spring's hay fever. And now David Brooks and Pascal Bruckner feel compelled to weigh in on the broad subject of declinism. Continue reading

Posted on April 10, 2012 1:59 PM

The debate over technocracy and politics

The pundits continue to chew over the issue of technocrats versus politicians, mostly over continuing European woes, which represent a sort of blow to the idea that economics is the ultimate determinant for politics. Continue reading

Posted on November 21, 2011 11:29 AM

David Brooks and the gospel of progress

Brooks' notion that Kahneman and Tversky singlehandedly changed the way humanity thinks about human behavior is hyperbole. Artists, philosophers, even theologians and divines have been acutely aware of the complexities of the human psyche for a very long time. Continue reading

Posted on October 21, 2011 1:21 PM

Grave dancers

The heavy hitters lay retrospective claims to the meltdown of '08. Can this crisis be tarted up into bestsellers without the presence of splashy villains? Continue reading

Posted on January 9, 2009 2:10 PM

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