Monthly Archives: September 2014

Pimco shouldn’t reach its clients on TV, it should reach them in person.

Replying to Dan Davies’s excellent piece on the Fed tapes.

Slate Money with Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal on the fall of the “bond king,” Yahoo’s negative stock value, and what happens when you know your co-workers’ salaries.

Lessons in how not to value a bank

‘The Shifts and the Shocks,’ by Martin Wolf

How a big win for Blackstone’s investors was a big loss for its lenders

The more you default on various sovereign obligations, the less of a big deal it becomes if and when you eventually default on your bonds.

On this week’s episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of Columbia University and Slate’s Jordan Weissmann discuss the economic illogic of Scotland’s independence vote, how a federal banking regulation could impact infrastructure investment, and a look … Continue reading →

They’re going to vote for change.

The Withings Activité  is the polite smart watch

If Apple manages to come up with a thin, waterproof watch which I can wear comfortably under a shirt cuff, one where I can tell the time just by looking at it, without having to recharge it twice a day, … Continue reading →

As old-school chain cuff links face an existential threat, one man makes a stand for true closure.

Listen to Slate’s show on former congressmen working for Wall Street, dollar-store mergers, and premium bonds.

It’s not much of a caveat to say that if women were exactly the same as men, then they would earn the same amount as men do.

The big interactive project I’ve been working on since May. Explore, enjoy! There’s also an IMterview I did with Chad Matlin about how he paid off his six-figure student debt in six years. And I wrote up the NY Fed’s … Continue reading →