Author Archives for Don
Inflation is the most insidious form of governmental policy
Should the repeal of Glass-Steagall be faulted for the sub-prime crisis? According to the Consumerist: probably yes.
I say, definitely no. The blame for subprime should be firmly placed in Bernanke’s, Greenspan’s, and Congress’ collective laps. The poor policy decisions prompting the creation of pseudo-capital, created an incentive system that heavily rewarded short-term thinking over long-term […]
The Irrepressible Gold Standard; or: Inflation, Inflation Everywhere, and Only Rate-cuts to Drink
[This is a copy from my personal website: getintuit.blogspot.com]
So these are the days of miracles and wonders, huh? It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to post, and it will probably be another long-time before I find the time to do so again. My first semester went pretty well; hopefully things fall into […]
Perhaps this was what I was looking for: did the Legal Market go and respond already?
[This is a post from my personal website: getintuit.blogspot.com]
Up-to-date readers of this blog know that the last two posts have been on the topic of first-year associate pay (what, how, why, where its going? etc.) Friend of GetIntuit, Pete L. made some very valid and interesting points in the comment box to the first post […]
A Restatement of BigLaw Pay: or, as the Emperor in Star Wars said, “Your fate is inevitable…I have foreseen it.”
What do you get when you cross a starting law student who is glaring down the barrel of $100k+ in debt and knows that by the time he gets close to coming out from under that load, he may need to find new work? One distressed 23 year old, that’s what!
In my previous post on […]
A brief argument (that may need more work) for opening the discussions on BigLaw payscales for first-year associates
There has been much “net-noise” about the recent publishing of a study on first year associate pay being bi-modal, meaning that instead of having a nice bell-curve shape, as one would expect, the pay distribution for first-year associates has two distinct points, with a deep, steep valley in between. (See: A Picture is worth 1,000 […]
