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Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:14:54 -0500

By James Kwak

Private Equity and “Job Creation”

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:53:04 -0500

By James Kwak

AT&T, Anger Management and Spectrum Legislation

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:59:22 -0500

Based on recent statements, it’s hard to tell whose angrier at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its Chair, Julius Genachowski: AT&T’s Upper Management or the House Commerce Committee Republicans. Mere mention of Genachowski’s name converts House Commerce Committee …

Oversaturation

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:26:51 -0500

I want to suggest today that globalization as a process has reached a new condition, akin to that reached by modernization in the 1950s.

Atemporal design, this time Swiss style.

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:27:32 -0500

Atemporal design, this time Swiss style.

What Did the SEC Really Do in 2004?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:14:02 -0500

By James Kwak

Andrew Lo’s review of twenty-one financial crisis books has been getting a fair amount of attention, including a recent mention in The Economist. Simply reading twenty-one books about the financial crisis is a demonstration of stamina that exceeds mine. I should also say at this point that I have no arguments with Lo’s description of 13 Bankers.

What Is Private Equity?

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:57:52 -0500

By James Kwak

Recently, a lot of the political debate has been about whether private equity—and by extension Mitt Romney—is good or bad. The argument on one side is that private equity firms are vultures who destroy firms to make money; on the other, that private equity is just capitalism at work, creates value, and creates jobs.

America 2050

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:59:34 -0500

America 2050:

Everyone in studio should look at this material.

America 2050 is a national initiative to meet the infrastructure, economic development and environmental challenges of the nation as we prepare to add about 130 million additional Americans by the year 2050.

What The SOTU “Piracy” Reference Means: Back In The USTR With Special 301 and The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:25:48 -0500

It don’t take much to excite the Twitterverse. Obama makes a passing reference to intellectual property enforcement as a sop to the MPAA by saying foreign piracy hurts trade, and my reader explodes with “Obama’s flipping on PIPA/SOPA! Betrayal!” While …

Breakthrough: Eric Schneiderman To Chair Mortgage Crisis Unit

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:21:59 -0500

By Simon Johnson

As reported first in the Huffington Post, President Obama is creating “a special unit to investigate misconduct and illegalities that contributed to both the financial collapse and the mortgage crisis”. This will be chaired by Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general.