Charles Ferguson: How A Bank Self Destructs
One fascinating question about the financial crisis is how and why the CEOs of major banks could have tolerated behavior that destroyed their own companies.
One fascinating question about the financial crisis is how and why the CEOs of major banks could have tolerated behavior that destroyed their own companies.
The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.20.2012
On March 27, Hachette Audio released David Foster Wallace's magnum opus "Infinite Jest" -- most of it, at least -- as a 56-hour-long audiobook. Th...
Posted 03.19.2012
In a recent interview with Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal, House Speaker John Boehner claimed that President Barack Obama "lost courage" last...
Anna Solomon | Posted 03.11.2012
My novel, The Little Bride, begins in a basement in Odessa, where 16-year-old maidservant Minna Losk is being given her "Look" - an examination to see if she's sufficiently "fit" (i.e., "virginal") to become a mail-order bride to America.
Posted 05.25.2011
Early this year, former CIA director Porter Goss read the novel "Twice a Spy" in manuscript form and wondered how a Huffington Post columnist knew so ...
Alice Schroeder | Posted 05.25.2011
Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.
Alice Schroeder | Posted 05.25.2011
Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.
Alice Schroeder | Posted 05.25.2011
Buffett had indeed learned through experience that "when in doubt keep holding"; he said, "I've made most of my money sitting on my ass."
Richard Farrell | Posted 11.17.2011
Heroin is not a cold-shake like cocaine. The impurities used to cut heroin need to be cooked off in boiling water before you shoot it intravenously.
Michèle Lamont | Posted 05.25.2011
An essay excerpted from How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Harvard University Press) Excellence is the holy grail o...
Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011
Malcolm Mc Neill's memoir about his longtime collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Observed While Falling, is just as spellbinding as his show at Salomon Arts in Manhattan.
Vanity Fair | Sebastian Faulks | Posted 05.25.2011
To honor Ian Fleming's centenary, one of Britain's top novelists has accepted espionage fiction's ultimate challenge: reviving James Bond. In an excl...
Charles Ferguson | Posted 05.21.2012