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,...