In the mid-1990’s, Yale economist Robert Shiller predicted the dot-com bubble would burst. In 2005, Shiller predicted the housing bubble would burst. Why? In the wake of the dot-com crash,...
The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal profiled John Paulson, whose firm made $15 billion by systematically betting against the value of American homes. Paulson himself took home $4...
From the lead column in last week’s New Yorker: The market for news is narrowing down to people who need an ideological fix. Of course, that comment was directed at...
Tom Friedman says don’t send more troops to Afghanistan, because there are no positive trends to build on, like the Anbar Awakening before the surge in Iraq. Yet back in...
The vote is in. Tom Friedman says no more troops for Afghanistan. Why? When I think back on all the moments of progress in that part of the world —...
On CBS, the senator from Wisconsin said the following: And the idea that the Taliban is the same as al Qaeda, and they’re going to welcome al Qaeda back with...
