May 2012
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May 16th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 7th
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When a former banker friend asks if there are any...
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May 7th
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“Even if they didn’t agree with Obama on everything in 2008, many in the...”
– Obama’s Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street - NYTimes.com
May 7th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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“People get very angry before they change their mind,” he said. “Economics is...”
– Romney’s Former Bain Partner Makes a Case for Inequality - NYTimes.com This is so gauche and horrifying. Conard, as if you took so many risks in your life. HBS, then Bain, then Wasserstein Perella and Bain Cap. That is soooo risky for your financial prospects, right?! Who can say with a straight...
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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If I have to hear another interview that someone...
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May 2nd
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April 2012
25 posts
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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“Competition has trumped value-creation. In this and other ways, the competitive...”
– The Creative Monopoly - NYTimes.com
Apr 25th
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Batmaaaaan.
Gotham Bar & Grill is a restaurant older than I am, no mean feat for a place that still attempts to toe the line between trendy and classic. The service here is hardly stuffy, and the atmosphere is a good balance between loud and intimate. The seafood salad certainly came in a different shape than expected. This cute volcano is piled high with scallops, squid, lobster, and octopus. The...
Apr 25th
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Sakagura.
Sakagura is somewhat inauspiciously located in the basement of an aging office building, camouflaged in Midtown Manhattan. Once you walk through the tacky lobby and down the dimly lit stairsWe got there before the dinner rush and tried two flights of drinks (one of sake, one of ume). I have never claimed to be an expert on either—let’s just say they were both pretty good....
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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“According to our analysis of current tax rates and their elasticity, the...”
– Diamond and Saez: High Tax Rates Won’t Slow Growth - WSJ.com Pleasantly surprised that WSJ even published this.
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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When my friends and i realized that houseparties...
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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“To someone who lives in the fashionable neighborhoods of Washington, communities...”
– Coming Apart: The State of White America by Charles Murray Whoa. Really? 
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 18th
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“Smith’s win adds yet another laurel to the creative writing department’s...”
– Smith wins poetry Pulitzer - The Daily Princetonian Yayyyyyyy
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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“In a way, the United States is becoming like Old Europe, which is very strange...”
– For Economists Saez and Piketty, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start - NYTimes.com We read some of Piketty and Saez’s work the other week in POL 352!
Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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“It doesn’t make us weaker when we guarantee basic security for the elderly or...”
– Remarks by the President at the Associated Press Luncheon What the New York Times called a “thunderclap of a speech.”
Apr 4th
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March 2012
21 posts
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Mar 29th
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Mar 27th
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Mar 20th
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“The conceit that poverty is a problem suffered by other — often less deserving —...”
– The New Suburban Poverty - NYTimes.com
Mar 20th
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Mar 20th
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Mar 18th
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Mar 16th
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“When the history books are written about Goldman Sachs, they may reflect that...”
– Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs - NYTimes.com
Mar 14th
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Mar 13th
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Mar 10th
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Mar 10th