The Private Equity Deception
Private equity firms are a risky place to invest and their reported returns can be misleading.
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Wages Up or Down?
(1) Possibly Irrelevant Image: Which New York Times article are we to believe? (2) Bernanke Says Rising Wages Will Lift
Surveillance
(1) Possibly Irrelevant Image: (2) Top Secret America: The series of articles by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin in
Arizona Injunction; Baker on CBO and SS
(1) Possibly Irrelevant Image for today: (2) Judge Blocks Az. Law S.B. 1070. Breaking news--U.S. District Court Judge
Black on Dodd-Frank; USAS Victory; etc.
Various items: (1) New Blog Feature: Possibly Irrelevant Images. With this post I inaugurate a new feature for the D&
G20, Deficits, etc.
A few items about the G20 meetings have been languishing on my desk (or rather as tabs in my browser)
Three Big Headlines: BP, Banking, Goldman
Wow--three big headlines today: (1) BP supposedly manages to cap the Deepwater Horizon well--for now, at least--after 87 days of
The Root of Economic Fragility (Reich)
Interesting piece from Robert Reich's blog. An excerpt: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Missing from almost all discussion of
Financial Reform Inches More
It now appears that with Scott Brown (our "populist" senator from Massachusetts) has agreed to support the reconciled
History of BP and Transocean
Yestesrday's Times had an article about the alleged misdeeds of Transocean, the company that owned (still owns, I
Dean Baker on David Brooks
Dean Baker posted a great response to that David Brooks column I mentioned yesterday. Here's what he says:
The Bleak Jobs Picture
Friday's jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was bleak. Though the unemployment rate went down to
Banking Reform Inching Forward (or Backward?)
The dust is slowly settling on the reconciled version of the banking reform bill, as we find out what deals