Adair Turner, Equity, Growth, LIBOR, and British Bank Regulation
Adair Turner New Orleans In one of those serendipitous moments a friend in San Francisco had passed on a book for my reaction and the daily papers have been full of pictures and quotes of the...
View ArticleCultural Shift: The Media Suddenly Rediscovers Poverty
New Orleans I swear there’s a shift suddenly in the recognition that poverty is a big freaking problem. Everywhere I turn in recent days commentators, columnists and reporters feel obligated to at...
View ArticleDefending the Constitution for Workers and Not Elites
New Orleans Hidden in the New York Times the day after the July 4th holiday was a fascinating op-ed piece entitled Workingman’s Constitution, by William E. Forbath, a professor of law and history at...
View ArticleGood News: Wealth Up! Bad News: Not for You!
Dallas Figures released by the Federal Reserve indicate that citizen wealth by some indices is recovering almost to pre-recession levels. According to the Wall Street Journal: The net worth of U.S....
View ArticleJerry Jones’ Trump Tactics are Revealing More of the Dark Side of the NFL
New Orleans The public rarely gets a good inside view of rich people’s world, but thanks to the Jerry Jones, owner and chief potentate of the Dallas Cowboys, formerly known as America’s Team, we’re...
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