What a life Paul Newman led. The New York Times has a terrific obit on him this morning. I oove this quote from him given during an interview with…

This post by Nanette Brynes of Business Week certainly grabbed my attention, especially since I've gotten a number of emails from management…

New York City securities industry firms paid out a total of $137 billion in employee bonuses from 2002 to 2007, according to figures compiled by…

This makes no sense….

I've always felt that the problem of moral hazard has been exaggerated. But this time, no….

A puzzle about the 1930s is how did a severe recession turn into a Great Depression. Much of the blame rests with the monetary authorities and,…

One of the economist bloggers I routinely check is economist James Hamilton at Econbrower. He's an eocnomist at the Ujniversity of California, San…

Now that Wall Street investment banks have disappeared and reemerged as commercial banks are the private equity buccaners like Kohlberg, Kravis…

This is nuts:…

Barry Eichengreen, political economist at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the leading scholars on the Great Depression….