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Ernie Patrikis, former AIG head council, argues that credit default swaps have been unfairly attacked.
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What would have happened if the government had let the giant fall? Former head counsel Ernie Patrikis explains.
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AIG’s former head council Ernie Patrikis thinks society should take the blame.
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Ernie Patrikis on the misperceptions of Hank Greenberg.
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A conversation with the White & Case partner and former council of AIG.
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Would Wikipedia or Google do a better job? Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi weighs in.
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Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi is worried that businesses are being overly cautious.
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It was partly the forecasters’ attempts to protect their credibility that put us in this dilemma, says Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi.
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Why the next generation of investors will be cautious savers, explains Mark Zandi, Moody’s chief economist.
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A conversation with the chief economist and co-founder of Moody’s Economy.com
Exciting news for Gen-Y back-to-the-landers this month. If you went upstate after college instead of to Wall Street, if you’re growing carrots and raising beef to sell at local farmers’ […]
In a speech in early December, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) repeated the charge that the Republicans have become "the party of No." Rather than working to improve the […]
I keep getting whiffs of Apple's tablet computer. See what's cooking after the jump. Wired has the most recent report. It sounds like Apple is leaking it some info. There […]
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying blow up Northwest Flight 253 to Detroit, is in many ways the very model of a modern terrorist. Like many al-Qaeda […]
It’s hard to avoid the barrage of end-of-decade retrospectives this last week of 2009, a decade marked by an interesting combination of the sublime and the ridiculous. But in a […]
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Kerouac was a "half-assed" writer, says Robert Stone, who traveled with the Beats. Yet the "divinity" he heralded is as much a wakeup call as ever.
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Award-winning novelist Robert Stone explains why he’s made a late turn toward short stories, and why his new book ("Fun With Problems") contains his first experiment with the first person.
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The National Book Award-winning author picks up the pen in order to locate himself. It’s the same reason, he says, that smart people must continue to read.
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What can addiction teach us? Can its complexities ever be honestly represented in fiction? And is writing itself a kind of drug?
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As overly "creative" memoirists continue to generate scandal, Robert Stone ("Prime Green") isn’t surprised: writing about yourself, he says, is much like creating any other fictional character.