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Business columns: 9/15 may loom larger than 9/11
feature When the history books are written, 9/15—marking the Sept. 15, 2008, collapse of Lehman Brothers—will likely be the more important date, said Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times.
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In defense of the 1 percent
feature Face it: The 1 percenters “generally have the nerve, drive, and self-assurance that the rest of us could only dream of,” said John Tamny of Forbes.com.
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The dark art of tax dodging
feature It shows how desperately we need corporate tax reform when “even a company like P&G practices the dark tax-avoiding arts,” said Allan Sloan at Fortune.
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China’s inevitable crisis
feature Subsidized companies keep building “unnecessary and unprofitable” factories, and government-directed banks keep pumping out money that will be wasted, said Michael Schuman at Time.com.
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Banning banker bonuses
feature No one employed by a company that “would require a taxpayer-financed bailout if it failed” should ever get a bonus, period, said Nassim Nicholas Taleb at The New York Times.
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A retail bully gets its comeuppance
feature Abercrombie & Fitch is “a schoolyard bully”
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Issue of the week: Twitter’s public stock offering
feature As Twitter prepares for its initial public offering, “its books aren’t pretty.”
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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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Issue of the week: Do high-speed traders rig the market?
feature Wall Street is abuzz over high-frequency trading.
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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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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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Not everyone benefits from college
feature It’s time the U.S. ditched the idea of “college for all.”
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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: The economy’s new normal
feature Are we in “a permanent slump?”
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