From a piece on the Online Newshour:
It’s just after closing on a Friday night at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. In the darkened auditorium, a jazz quintet is building a rhythmic floor on a soft, steady percussion line and lilting piano chords. Composer-conductor Jacob Varmus steps in on trumpet, twirling a feverish [...]
from the people who brought you the very understandable, entertaining and comprehensive explanation of the housing and financial crises comes this look at the ones who were supposed to be watching the banks and insurers to make sure they weren’t doing what it turned out they were doing, en masse.
in this latest installment, we hear from the regulatory agencies [...]
after failing to post for a few months, i’m throwing myself on the mercy of the blogosphere. i guess my truancy began when i discovered google reader, which basically does to Web sites what itunes does for radio: trolls the places you love for updates and sends them to you. it’s like the difference between [...]
