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Issue of the week: Yahoo’s $1.1 billion Tumblr deal
feature Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr is basically “a billion dollar bailout.”
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Issue of the week: Is JPMorgan’s fine unfair?
feature The CEO of JPMorgan Chase helped to “save the financial system five years ago,” yet the bank now has to pay a $13 billion settlement.
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Viewpoint: Kevin Drum
feature From MotherJones.com: “The Internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it...
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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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Issue of the week: Do high-speed traders rig the market?
feature Wall Street is abuzz over high-frequency trading.
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Not everyone benefits from college
feature It’s time the U.S. ditched the idea of “college for all.”
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Wall Street schools the Ivies
feature All the deans deploring finance’s irresistible pull should wake up to their own responsibility to better prepare their students for employment, said Ezra Klein at The Washington Post.
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Help others and get more done
feature There is a simple fix for your hectic, time-starved schedule.
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Regulations that coddle big business
feature The practical effect of “anti-corporate” regulations is to make many large corporations more powerful and less innovative, by blocking upstart competitors from entering the market, said Reihan Salam at The Daily.
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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: 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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The myth of strategic defaults
feature The threat of “walkaway” homeowners has been vastly overblown, said Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times.
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Issue of the week: GM’s recall disaster
feature Mary Barra is facing “her first big test” since she took over as GM’s new CEO in January: a recall of more than 1.6 million vehicles.
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Viewpoint: Geoff Colvin
feature From Fortune: “Wall Street has to change in painful ways. The major firms, gloriously profitable just a few years ago, are not earning their cost of capital. They’re failing...
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