By Sep 16,2008

OPM

Michael Lewitt writes in today’s New York Times that if A.I.G. collapses, life as we know it will come to an end. Money grafs: More promisingly, A.I.G. asked the Federal...

By Sep 15,2008

All Eyez on FDIC

Everyone’s a-titter today about Lehman going bankrupt and Merrill being bought by Bank of America. These are not minor events to be sure, but in many ways they don’t directly...

By Sep 15,2008

David Foster Wallace, RIP

I was deeply shocked and saddened to read that writer David Foster Wallace took his own life this past weekend. The death of such a talent is always a loss,...