Richard Posner

A Guide To The Best Books On The Financial Crisis

Daily Intel | Moe Tkacik | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business


This week marks the official publication of the longest, most comprehensive, and highest-priced ($32.95!) work of Crisis Lit yet, New York Times repor...

If Not Health Care Reform...

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics


Harry Moroz

The Obama administration is currently losing its argument for the CFPA. It is suffering under some of the same criticisms as its health care reform plan: in particular, that choice will be limited by minimum regulatory standards.

Judge Posner's Dangerous Thinking

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media


Jeff Jarvis

Judge Richard Posner wants to not just mold the new world to old laws, but to try to change the law to protect the old world and its incumbents from the new world and its innovators.

Judge Richard Posner: We Need Counterpart To 9/11-Commission To Study Causes Of Financial Crisis

New York Times | RICHARD A. POSNER | Posted 07.25.2009 | Home


THE 88-page report issued by the Treasury Department last week proposes far-reaching changes in financial regulation. Unfortunately, the report is pre...

Marcus Baram

Judge Richard Posner Questions His Free-Market Faith In "A Failure Of Capitalism"

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business


"If you're worried that lions are eating too many zebras, you don't say to the lions, 'You're eating too many zebras.' You have to build a fence aroun...

Adversity and Comedy, the Venerable Studs

Rob Warden | Posted 12.02.2008 | Chicago


Rob Warden

True to form, Studs could turn his malady into something of a comedy routine.