Last week, I went to a security analysts’ luncheon featuring John Bogle, the retired founder of the mutual fund company Vanguard Group. Bogle didn’t have nice things to say about…
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Donald Trump wants everyone to know that he’s a billionaire. He’s suing an author who dared claim that Trump was worth as little as $150 million. That won’t get anyone…
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In the summer of 1998, Harper’s Magazine published one of its most talked-about stories, Vince Passaro’s narrative of how his family accumulated $63,000 in credit card debt. He and his…
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Financial theory starts with two key assumptions: first, that markets are efficient; second, that investors are rational. And, of course, in the real world, we all know that markets aren’t…
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It”™s tough being a grandiose financial criminal these days. Lots of people ran scams that took millions from clients; Allan Stanford even collected a title while allegedly fleecing investors with…
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This month, Thomas Geoghegan has an article in Harpers about how debt changed working-class America. Barack Obama sat down with bailed-out banks to discuss their credit card practices. I paid…
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On Tax Day, I went to the Chicago Loop post office — the one with the Calder where mortified if they knew what teabagging was. The postal service receives very…
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Different countries are…well, different. They have different laws and languages, funny stamps, and candy that you can’t get at home. We usually think that part of being a distinct country…
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Wednesday was our last night in Iceland and the second-to-the last night of the Reykjavik Blues Festival. It was a great show to end on, too. Willie “Big Eyes” Smith…
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The Reykjavik Blues Festival was started in 2003 by Halldor Bragason, a blues guitarist from Iceland who studied music in the United States. Halldor has performed with many of the…
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I’m a Chicagoan on a working vacation in Iceland, writing about the financial crisis for a hedge fund trade magazine and taking in geysers. When I realized that my…
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