English Webster (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Here is another good article on the misaligned incentives that came about when Wall Street went public. (more…)
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Hossein Derakhshan... is among the most famous Persian bloggers. Hossein is jailed and threatened with the same fate of execution by the Iranian government.
English Webster (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Something I’ve noticed this year about the irony of American Exceptionalism: Those who trumpet it most have it least. American exceptionalism is about being a nation rooted not in shared backgrounds but in shared values: freedom, democracy, the rule of law, equality for all. We thrive because we recognize our diversity as a strength, and respect to each other as an imperative. It is ironic that many...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Nazila Fathi reported in the New York Times that Iran recently executed a man it claimed was a "spy" and has arrested another one also for "spying." This second man, Hossein Derakhshan, is among the most famous Persian bloggers. Hossein is jailed & threatened with the same fate of execution by the Iranian government. His crime? Trying to humanize Iranians and Israelis towards each other. A couple years...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
I have always admired Goldman Sachs as the smartest of the smart, as "the" Investment Banking firm. When I haven’t gotten a chance to catch up with emails and reports, and I go back and notice "forecasts" and predictions from columnists or analysts, I love taking a look at how accurate they were. From a report a friend of a friend shared from Goldman’s predictions late this spring/early summer, sent...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
I got a note from a friend in Gaza a couple weeks before the latest breakdown of the cease-fire, which means what you read below has only gotten worse. "you can hear the people complaining about the situation and cursing the day that Hamas was voted in. The people say that Hamas had tricked them into voting for it and after that Hamas had destroyed their lives." Full letter… (more…)
