Business Insider’s Barcelona Junket

By Felix Salmon   Feb 18, 2011 at 08:39 AM

Victoria Barret reports on the nice little deal that Dan Frommer has going on in Barcelona: "Samsung was generous enough... More

The NYT’s Smart Take on Valuing Life

By Felix Salmon   Feb 17, 2011 at 01:59 PM

I love Binya Appelbaum’s NYT article on the various different values of a human life which are used by government... More

The WSJ’s Balanced Look at Muni Risk

And the FT adds some helpful data

By Felix Salmon   Feb 10, 2011 at 11:30 AM

The muni-market hearings in Washington today might be a bit of a snore, but Michael Corkery's long curtain-raiser for them... More

Incomplete Stories on Licensing Workers

The rise of a service-based economy implies a natural rise in occupational licensing

By Felix Salmon   Feb 8, 2011 at 05:14 PM

Stephanie Simon's WSJ article on the rise of jobs needing a license of some description has resulted in a predictable... More

Beware the WSJ’s Pay Statistics

By Felix Salmon   Feb 3, 2011 at 10:00 AM

This is getting to be a habit: today's WSJ article claiming that Wall Street pay has hit a new record... More

Some Very Bad Housing Advice in The Philly Inquirer

By Felix Salmon   Feb 1, 2011 at 07:19 PM

Erin Arvedlund -- yes, that Erin Arvedlund -- has a pretty crazy column in the Philadelphia Inquirer, under the headline... More

The NYT Throws Gasoline on the State-Bankruptcy Flames

By Felix Salmon   Jan 21, 2011 at 11:28 AM

Talk of introducing legislation allowing states to declare bankruptcy began in earnest in November. A speech by Newt Gingrich was... More

Inc.’s Excellent Story on Entrepreneurship in Norway

By Felix Salmon   Jan 20, 2011 at 01:18 PM

Max Chafkin has a fantastic story in Inc magazine about how to structure an economy so as to encourage entrepreneurship,... More

DealBook Leaves Out the Links in Its Goldman Story

By Felix Salmon   Jan 19, 2011 at 05:31 PM

DealBook and Footnoted—the very epitome of professional financial blogs—have collaborated in a big investigation of Goldman Sachs's regulatory filings and... More

Adventures in Markets Reporting

By Felix Salmon   Jan 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM

European stocks went up today, and European bonds went down. That happens, sometimes. But there was lots of news floating... More

The Euro-Default Drumbeat Loudens

By Felix Salmon   Jan 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM

The drumbeat for debt restructurings on Europe's periphery is becoming too loud to ignore. The Economist has now come out... More

The NYT Questions the Value of a Law Degree

By Felix Salmon   Jan 10, 2011 at 07:24 AM

David Segal is the best writer on the NYT's business desk, so it's a good thing that he was chosen... More

Vanity Fair’s Odd HuffPo Story

By Felix Salmon   Jan 6, 2011 at 07:17 AM

What to make of Bill Cohan's big Vanity Fair piece on a slightly skeevy lawsuit where a pair of Democratic... More

Weil: Accountability for Accountants

By Felix Salmon   Dec 23, 2010 at 10:57 AM

As Caleb Newquist notes, most financial reporters cover the accountancy industry "once in a lunar eclipse on the winter solstice."... More

The Journal Digs Into Medtronic’s Payments to Surgeons

By Felix Salmon   Dec 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM

The WSJ puts a lot of time and effort into its leders—those long, exhaustively-reported front-page exclusives about topics which might... More

Salvage the Financial Crisis Commission With a Document Dump

By Felix Salmon   Dec 16, 2010 at 09:38 AM

Keith Hennessey, one of the four Republican commissioners on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, has helpfully provided a copy of... More

The WSJ Is Needlessly Skeptical of GM’s Deleveraging

By Felix Salmon   Dec 15, 2010 at 12:27 PM

Sharon Terlep's story on GM trying to pay down its debt is a great indicator of how the leverage-is-good meme... More

The NYT’s Story Takes On the Derivatives Cartel

By Felix Salmon   Dec 13, 2010 at 02:33 AM

Back in September, the Chicago Fed hosted a symposium on OTC derivatives clearing. (Bear with me, don't fall asleep just... More

BusinessWeek Takes Road Already Traveled For Larry Fink Profile

By Felix Salmon   Dec 11, 2010 at 09:22 AM

Paul Kedrosky loves playing around with word clouds, and generated this one from the new Bloomberg Businessweek profile of Larry... More

NYT Finds a Mortgage-Mod Program That Works

By Felix Salmon   Dec 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM

David Bornstein has a great post about ESOP, an Ohio non-profit which acts as a middleman between homeowners and lenders,... More