Caveat Archos

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 […]

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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 […]

One of the recent conversations I had with some friends concerning economics came across a problem that I think is very common - the difference between producers and consumers in regards to surplus.  It turns out that almost everyone has a Marxist view of the producers and consumers, which the managers and owners, a.k.a. “the […]

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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 […]

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 […]