Bob Teitelman, Editor in Chief of M&A industry rag The Deal, released an editorial from this coming week's magazine last Friday. In it, he takes aim at the vaunted "resolution authority"...Burning Down the House
Bob Teitelman, Editor in Chief of M&A industry rag The Deal, released an editorial from this coming week's magazine last Friday. In it, he takes aim at the vaunted "resolution authority"...On Bullshit
I try to stay positive, Dear Readers, I really do.I try to believe that any glimmer of illumination I can occasionally shed on the structure, function, and operation of global...
All Hail the New Decembrists
Trot on over, kiddies, to Your Curmudgeonly Blogosopher's new blog site, The New Decembrists, if you get half a mo'.It is subtitled "A Public Forum for the Discussion of Financial Regulation...
A Reformist Manifesto
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a...
Notes from a Presidential Address I Would Like to Hear
As delivered from the bully pulpit long ago, in another time and place, which looks a lot like this time and place:
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we...
Shock and Awe
I tell you honestly, Dear Readers, my afternoon conversation with this genial and intelligent gentleman started unremarkably enough, with a little playful banter in the Twitterverse on this and that. ...
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Subsequent to my recent half-hearted cudgeling of the Shaggy Horse of Shareholder Governance as an important contributor to the excessive pursuit of risky returns by publicly-owned financial institutions, my argument received overwhelming reinforcement today in the pages of...Killing People Is a Bad Habit
Chamberlain's wife: "You glisten too brightly."
Sanjuro: "Glisten?"
Chamberlain's wife: "Yes, like a drawn sword."
Sanjuro: "A drawn sword?"
Chamberlain's wife: [Nods] "You're like a...
Andrew Cuomo Is a Cheap Pander, and Other Observations
Carol Connelly: "Hey, we all have these terrible stories to get over, and you—"
Melvin Udall: "It's not true. Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes, with boats and friends...
A Mighty Wind
I wash my hands of this shit.I have stated my case about the prospects and proper outlines for reform of financial regulation in this country before....
Hammer and Tongs
Slumped by the courthouse
With windburned skin
That man could give a fuck
About the grin on your face
As you walk by, randy as a goat.
He's sleepin' on papers
But he'd be...
These Dark Satanic Mills
And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
And did the...
