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Counterparties: How far can homes run?

Posted on May 22, 2013
America got more great news on housing today. In April, existing home sales -- which exclude newly built homes -- hit their highest level in more than three years.

Don?t fear the bubble

Posted on May 22, 2013
When asset prices start to fall, the main people to be hurt will be the ones owning the assets in question. In other words, the people who can best afford it.

Why public companies should have public tax returns

Posted on May 21, 2013
Every investigative journalist occasionally dreams of what she might be able to do with monster resources and subpoena power. The answer looks something like Carl Levin.

Counterparties: SAC Capital punishment

Posted on May 21, 2013
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Tim Cook?s improbable victory in Washington

Posted on May 21, 2013
  I'm astonished that Cook emerged from this hearing so unscathed.

Counterparties: Borrow as fast as you can

Posted on May 20, 2013
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Why Yahoo-Tumblr makes sense

Posted on May 20, 2013
On the spectrum from "obviously doomed" (NewsCorp/MySpace) to "obviously sensible" (Google/YouTube), I'd put Yahoo/Tumblr well within the "sensible" half.

Cooper Union?s shameless trustees

Posted on May 19, 2013
Cooper's trustees, who couldn't be trusted a year ago, still can't be trusted today.

How technology redefines norms

Posted on May 18, 2013
Jeff Jarvis reprints the clip above, in an article dismissing the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass.

Counterparties: Golden Karp

Posted on May 17, 2013
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Jamie Dimon needs a boss

Posted on May 17, 2013
Jamie Dimon is wagging his finger from newstands across America this week, above the kind of headline his PR team can only dream of.

Counterparties: Commissioners Found Taken Captive

Posted on May 16, 2013
Today something strange happened: a dreary, easily overlooked vote at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ended up on Gawker.

Counterparties: Europe?s longest recession

Posted on May 15, 2013
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Have we solved our fiscal problems?

Posted on May 15, 2013
Ezra Klein has a good summary of the latest CBO budget projections, which show that the national debt really isn't going to be a problem at any point in the foreseeable future.

Counterparties: Loeb?s electric epistle

Posted on May 14, 2013
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Bloomberg is watching you

Posted on May 14, 2013
The more time you spend on your Bloomberg, the more value you get out of it -- and the more that Bloomberg staffers are going to know about when and how you work.

Why dedecimalization is a bad idea

Posted on May 14, 2013
Dan Primack is excited about a new bill which would give small-cap companies the option to have their stocks be quoted at 5-cent or 10-cent increments rather than the standard one-cent gap.

Counterparties: Improving Bangladesh?s clothing industry

Posted on May 13, 2013
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Are Cooper Union?s finances fixable?

Posted on May 11, 2013
James Stewart has an important column on Cooper Union today: if you read it carefully, it hints at how much further Cooper might yet fall from its founding mission of providing free education.

Counterparties: Well Fed critics

Posted on May 10, 2013
At a conference in Chicago today, Ben Bernanke seemed like he was talking directly to his critics

Mail Online: Big, but not valuable

Posted on May 10, 2013
Back in December 2011, the Daily Mail had 45.3 million unique visitors, according to ComScore. By March 2013, 15 months later, that number had grown to 46.4 million, again according to ComScore.

The silliness of valuing hedge funds

Posted on May 10, 2013
How do you value a hedge fund? It's impossible, really.

The tragedy of US higher education

Posted on May 09, 2013
The tragedy of Cooper Union is endemic to most American higher education, outside a few community colleges.

Counterparties: Tesla stock goes vroom!

Posted on May 09, 2013
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Counterparties: Putting a price on illness

Posted on May 08, 2013
The US government is giving a whole new meaning to the term ?price discovery?. Today, the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services released a trove of seemingly basic data to the public for the first time: the prices American hospitals charge Medicare for the 100 most common inpatient procedures.

The IIF implodes

Posted on May 08, 2013
Wherever there's money and power, you're sure to find turmoil. If Promontory is the big winner these days, there's also bound to be a big loser.

Counterparties: Bipartisan disagreements

Posted on May 07, 2013
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Doomed Europe

Posted on May 07, 2013
It's long -- at some 4,500 words -- but I can highly recommend the debate between George Soros and Hans-Werner Sinn about what Soros calls The German Question.

Niall Ferguson?s history with Keynes

Posted on May 07, 2013
Brad DeLong has found a 1995 article by Niall Ferguson which pretty much puts the lie to Ferguson's claim about his take on John Maynard Keynes.

Counterparites: Split personalities

Posted on May 06, 2013
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