by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 28, 2009 | Asides
Banks Too Big to Fail Have Grown Even Bigger  | via washingtonpost.com. Seems like the multi-trillion dollar bailout deal was worse for us than I first suspected. The worry for consumers is that the bailouts skewed the financial industry in favor of the big and...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 21, 2009 | Asides
I’ve already said it, so , need I say more? It’s the same old, same old wrapped in a veneer of change… Daring Fireball Linked List: Despair Over Obama’s Financial...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 21, 2009 | Asides
I don’t know that it’s quite as bleak here as this article paints it—after all, Kathy and I are going to the new Sushi joint tonight, which, as far as I can tell, is doing pretty well—but this is a story about my little burgh. Check out the slideshow...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 18, 2009 | Asides
Speaking of Spitzer, he was just on WNYC talking about AIG. It’s the first time he’s done an interview since he got caught in DC with his pants down.
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 18, 2009 | Commentary
With due respect to John Gruber, whose work I love, and Philip Greenspun, who I’ve never heard of, AIG has already had a major management change. Eliot Spitzer saw to that in 2005. Those in charge of AIG today were put there by NY’s former governor in...
