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One CEO takes a noble stand
feature Gerard J. Arpey may be “the only airline CEO who regarded bankruptcy not simply as a financial tool but, more important, as a moral failing,” said D. Michael Lindsay at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: Allan Sloan
feature From Fortune: “We have an unfortunate tendency in this country to treat people as either heroes or villains, with no gradations in between....
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The rise of the sharing economy
feature The efficiency of a “post-ownership society” may not translate into economic growth, said Derek Thompson at The Atlantic.
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Chipotle is a lot like Apple
feature What Steve Jobs did with the cellphone, Chipotle founder Steve Ells has done with fast food, said Matthew Yglesias at Slate.com.
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Issue of the week: Facebook’s new approach
feature Will Facebook's 1 billion active users “like” the first major redesign since 2006?
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The SEC’s losing battle against banks
feature By urging the SEC to punish financial crimes more aggressively, Judge Jed Rakoff “may have inadvertently made the SEC’s job” that much tougher, said Tim Fernholz at The New Republic.
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Corzine’s downfall foretold
feature Corzine led Goldman into “its first major financial morass,” in 1998, overseeing trading positions that led to huge losses and delayed the firm’s IPO, said Charles Gasparino at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Issue of the week: Jamie Dimon’s Whale nightmare
feature The CEO of JPMorgan Chase is in hot water after a Senate report revealed that he had signed off on risky deals made by a London trader.
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Issue of the week: The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act
feature Sen. Elizabeth Warren is gearing up for some “financial rabble-rousing.”
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Business columns: Netflix shows the way on CEO pay
feature As Netflix has prospered, so has Hastings—but in tandem with other shareholders rather than at their expense, said Chris O’Brien in MercuryNews.com.
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Getting more by working less
feature A shorter workweek would produce happier, healthier workers and put many of the unemployed back to work, said Richard Schiffman at The Washington Post.
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Business columns: The real villains of foreclosure
feature Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own more than half of all U.S. mortgages and pay some of the nation’s largest banks to service them, said Stephen Meister in the New York Post.
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Issue of the week: AOL’s million-dollar babies
feature AOL’s “gaffe-prone” CEO, Tim Armstrong, “got in some hot water” last week.
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Issue of the week: The rise and fall of Groupon
feature Can the daily deals site get back on track?
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