Last summer the stock market panicked. This winter it rallied – yet not much has really changed. Why timing does not work.
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Vermonters Buy Into A Constitutional Mess Of Pottage
There is a surprisingly fine line between a town meeting and mob rule.
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The IRS Goes Back To Playing Politics
A long-ago public servant resisted when Nixon used the IRS against his opponents. We need someone like Donald Alexander today.
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A Management Failure That Could Cost $168 Million
Was it an operating room or ‘Animal House?’ A jury gives a $168 million answer.
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Pension Self-Deception Is A New York State Of Mind
New York borrows from its pension to pay its pension bills. “Amortization” is another word for self-deception.
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Larry Elkin in CNN Money
CNN Money, March 12, 2012Larry Elkin responds to Andrew Ross Sorkin’s criticism of AIG.
Recouping Taxpayer Investment In AIG
Taxpayers still have $50 billion sunk into AIG. The Treasury’s tax concessions will get that money back sooner.
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Framing Our Biases In The Primaries
The way we ask a question often determines the way we answer it. How to avoid drawing the wrong lessons from Super Tuesday?
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Europe Has Pneumonia; China Catches A Cold
Global economies are not marching in volatile lockstep. That’s a healthy development as Europe comes down with economic pneumonia.
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When I Had All The Answers
Ex-Goldman employee Greg Smith may learn that the older you get, the less of everything you know.
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