by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.” — Ronald Reagan Wall Street blames Washington for all the financial crises. And Washington blames Wall Street back. It would be amusing, if it wasn’t so pathetic. Now we know the...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Somewhere in the United States, right now, a billionaire is paying his taxes. This makes some people — not naming any names — very unhappy. In our nation, it is imperative that hedge fund managers, for example, pay roughly 15% on earnings via a handy...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was cleansing my inbox today and found this friendly letter to the Fed from 2007 written by our comrades at Long or Short Capital (vaguely connected to our own fake hedge fund, Intergalactic Capital). I was all ready to take a whimsical walk down memory...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
My New England home was my favorite place in the world when I was little. We bought it with several acres of land and it was surrounded by fields and forests and freshwater ponds on all sides. Our property was flanked by the longest line of ancient green-and-blue fir...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
A reader requested I write about the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Very well then. I do not ascribe zombies to the rise of the Tea Party, the Gang of Six, or today’s call by euro-zone chiefs for a “selective default” on the Greek debt. Although that...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
‘I was being sued…it upset me.’A midlife crisis can take many forms. Cheating on your spouse. Purchasing a Maserati. Wearing Billabong. Buying into The Lynx Effect. Just being a jerk. But putting up an “execution” list on your Web site...
