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Transactions: June 18, 2012

Recently, pundits with a statistical bent and a penchant for the abyss engaged in a parlor game that might go by the name of "Quantifying the Apocalypse." This game regularly occurs at financial firms, albeit in private. But The Economist's... Continue reading

Posted on June 19, 2012 10:33 AM




Transactions: June 18, 2012

Let us now quantify the Apocalypse. Or maybe not. Continue reading

Posted on June 15, 2012 12:40 PM




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




Mongolia's new securities markets law

The draft of the new law affords a number of improvements over the existing law and more fully reflects prevailing international standards Continue reading

Posted on April 11, 2012 1:37 PM




Transactions: March 12, 2012

Excessive rulemaking undermines regulation, as a Tower of Babel drowns out sense. Continue reading

Posted on March 9, 2012 12:00 PM




Transactions: March 12, 2012

A few weeks ago, The Economist, that idiosyncratically British "newspaper" with vague ties to the free-trade liberalism of its 19th-century editor, Walter "Lombard Street" Bagehot, confronted America with a shocking charge: We're overregulated. This sent GOP hearts a-beating, at least... Continue reading

Posted on March 9, 2012 11:20 AM




Stephen Bainbridge's 'Corporate Governance after the Financial Crisis'

In his new book, UCLA law professor and popular blogger Stephen Bainbridge provides a longer historical perspective on one aspect of the choking proliferation of rulemaking. Continue reading

Posted on February 21, 2012 1:24 PM




Stephen Bainbridge's 'Corporate Governance after the Financial Crisis'

In his new book, UCLA law professor and popular blogger Stephen Bainbridge provides a longer historical perspective on one aspect of the choking proliferation of rulemaking. Continue reading

Posted on February 21, 2012 1:13 PM




Stiglitz explains the Great Depression

By now seemingly everyone with access to a blog has contributed to the theory Joseph Stiglitz offers up in, of all places, the new Vanity Fair, about the causes not just of the Great Depression, but analogously, what he calls our own 'Long Slump.' Continue reading

Posted on December 20, 2011 1:32 PM




Prediction and its discontents

I guess you could have predicted this. With the world a mess, prediction as a respectable way to expend mental energy has suddenly become about as popular as Osama bin Laden futures. Continue reading

Posted on September 7, 2011 1:27 PM




Why Rupert Murdoch isn't the last mogul

One has to wonder, as The Economist claims: Why is Murdoch the last mogul? What has changed in the world that will banish the media mogul as a rare, if persistent, species of corporate manager? Continue reading

Posted on July 26, 2011 2:45 PM




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