May 2012
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When a former banker friend asks if there are any...
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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
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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...
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If I have to hear another interview that someone...
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April 2012
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Competition has trumped value-creation. In this and other ways, the competitive...
– The Creative Monopoly - NYTimes.com
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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...
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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....
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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.
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When my friends and i realized that houseparties...
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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?
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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
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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!
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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.”
March 2012
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The conceit that poverty is a problem suffered by other — often less deserving —...
– The New Suburban Poverty - NYTimes.com
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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
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