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Issue of the week: Who gets Fannie’s and Freddie’s profits?
feature Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s shareholders want their money back.
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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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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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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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Issue of the week: What does Black Friday really tell us?
feature Black Friday “wasn’t a bust,” but for many retailers, it was a disappointment.
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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: The ‘real’ unemployment rate
feature The Labor Department’s latest jobs data look deceivingly positive.
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A generation keen on selling
feature Their “ideal social form” is the small business, and they aspire to launch food carts, techie startups, and socially responsible companies, said William Deresiewicz at The New York Times.
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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: BlackBerry’s chances for survival
feature Is BlackBerry finally dead?
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Issue of the week: Avoiding corporate tax
feature Americans should be outraged about corporate tax dodging.
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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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In defense of the big banks
feature The argument for breaking up big banks may be “simple and sound-bite-ready,” but every part of it is “based on a fallacy.”
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Issue of the week: When body-shaming backfires
feature Lululemon’s founder, Chip Wilson, offended customers when he “implied that plus-size people should shop elsewhere.”
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