Vox Baby

After several years of blogging on my own at Vox Baby, I am joining Stan Collender and Pete Davis over at the newly redesigned Capital Gains...

I confess: I get annoyed beyond measure when I read articles like this one from Alan Zibel and J.W. Elphinstone of the Associated Press, wh...

Ben Bernanke would be played by Harvey Keitel, reprising his role as Winston Wolf if we're lucky or Victor the Cleaner if we're no...

My commentary on the Bear Stearns bailout aired on NPR's Marketplace this evening. Here's the teaser: The collapse of Bear Stearns ...

I'll be on NPR's Marketplace this evening, putting in my 1% of a share of Bear Stearns stock on the goings-on in financial markets....

There is some irony to be found in the title of Tamar Levin's excellent article in Friday's edition of The New York Times , "R...

We'll give FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair credit for this bit of lonely prudence in a financial sector gone mad: "There are significant...

The honest answer is that we cannot provide an answer in real time. The rule of thumb is that a recession is two or more consecutive quarter...

My first reaction to the news of Eliot Spitzer's demise was that I felt bad for his three daughters, for reasons discussed here . My s...

When I suggested the need for a capital budget, these were the sort of problems I wanted to avoid (this one in my own backyard): CONCORD, ...