Lacunae Musing

  Dubai Token2049 The May 3 Wall Street Journal describes a bacchanalian bash—unimaginably over-the-top—in “ What Happened in Two Days at...

Here’s some positive news from or about people who can help point us in the right direction. First there was the big news that Paul Volcker ...

Yesterday’s Palm Beach Post carried an outstanding editorial, putting Obama’s first year into perspective, and I sent a letter to the edito...

…the more they stay the same. It’s as if we did a Rip Van Winkle during the past six months, awakening to the Sturm und Drang of the banker...

Here is a little news item that made its way to the top of my Web pile this morning, Paul Volcker telling like it is ( Ben, are you listeni...

Bailouts, bonuses and Madoff. Are we getting tired yet of the endless litany of related headlines such as the Wall Street Journal ’s recent ...

While Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley, Troubled Asset Relief Program recipients are finding ways to circumvent TARP compensat...

The highly anticipated “bank stress test results” were announced a few minutes ago, a non-announcement that had so little detail about the h...

Although we are some 140 miles from Cape Canaveral, the view of yesterday’s shuttle launch into the twilight sky was spectacular. The shuttl...

Jim Cramer walked into Jon Stewart’s studio last night and instead of his trademark rolled-up sleeves, he might as well have been dressed li...

“I looked at my 401K and it’s now a 201K ba-dum-bum-CHING !" So, the joke goes today, but, don’t look now, it’s a 177K based on the S...

I was watching some of the House Financial Services Committee’s hearings yesterday with the chief executives of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chas...

Tom Friedman made this observation but here’s some more documentation from the New York Times : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/business/1...

Why not? Every other deserving group gets one. Too big to fail! And, according to the WSJ , maybe through the Securities Investor Protection...