Economy and Business
Move Your Money
Do you love your megabank?
Heave Ho
Dubai: Temple of Greed
You may be a bit hazy on the Persian Gulf. Basically that’s where a lot of the world’s oil comes from.
Toxic CEO Pay Story
As a critic of runaway CEO pay, I have a lot of scars from debates I’ve done on cable TV business shows. But my most memorable pummeling was in August 2007, when I nearly got my head bitten off for criticizing Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo on the CNBC show Squawk Box.
Invertebrate President
Well, the Democrats are finally showing some fight. They’re fighting with each other, but it’s a start.
College Ain’t What it Used to Be
Casino developers have to plunk down a lot of their own chips these days. Few researchers doubt that risk-taking is hard-wired into a slew of human brains, but at what point does over saturation cause the developer to lose his shirt?
A $700 Billion Dilemma
How would you spend $700 billion? Congress has to decide this month.
Crocodile Tears
Gambling: Upbeat, but Slipping
Casino developers have to plunk down a lot of their own chips these days. Few researchers doubt that risk-taking is hard-wired into a slew of human brains, but at what point does over saturation cause the developer to lose his shirt?
ISO: Obama’s Campaign-Trail Eloquence
What I can’t understand is why so many people of modest means are against taxing the filthy rich. Recent polls show a majority of people favoring the extension of Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. Why?
