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Getting a grip on AIG
Geez. I leave the country for ten days on a European trip and, upon my return, the entire U.S. body politic appears to be going batshit over a couple hundred million dollars of performance bonuses that the now-thoroughly Enronized...
It's tough following sports in Houston
As noted earlier here, given all of the incredible disappointments over the years, there must be a special place in Heaven for folks who continue to follow Houston sports teams. The latest example The Stros haven't even held their...
Football or P.R. Genius?
Richard Justice has already deemed him a genius. Earlier this month, he visited President Bush in the White House and, on Sunday night, he will be profiled on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes. Even Michael Lewis has bought in to the...
Thinking about Bear Stearns
Michael Lewis -- author of Moneyball and The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (previous post here) provides this particularly lucid Bloomberg.com op-ed regarding the implications of the Bear Stearns affair to investors generally: All of this raises an...
Vince Young's $5 million donation to UT
Michael Lewis (previous posts here) -- author of Moneyball and The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (previous post here) -- pens this NY Times op-ed in which he addresses a frequent topic on this blog -- that is, the...
Winning by losing
Dr. Michael Lewis penned this NY Times op-ed last weekend in which he asserts that Major League Baseball's present revenue-sharing formula does little to affect the quality of the various teams on average, even though small market teams do well...
The Katrina legacy
The "News-Hurricane" category of this blog began with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The second post in that blog was this one in the early afternoon of Saturday, August 27, 2005, which was one of the first in the blogosphere warning...
Making sense of the subprime markets
In this WSJ ($) op-ed, American Enterprise Institute fellow Ted Frank provides a particularly lucid explanation of the many benefits of the markets relating to subprime mortgages and the absurd nature of the attempt by some plaintiffs' firms to extract...
An investment market for Charlie Pallilo
My favorite sports talk radio show in Houston is Charlie Pallilo's afternoon show over at 790-AM, but I've always wondered why the quite bright Pallilo isn't off making millions trading bonds or running a hedge fund. Moneyball's Michael Lewis reports...
The Blind Side of big-time college football
Last week, the resignation of my friend, Iowa State head football coach Dan McCarney, prompted this post reflecting on how the pressures of big-time college football prompted a resignation that is quite likely contrary to the long term ability of...
Big Tuna's World
In this NY Sunday Times article, Michael Lewis of Moneyball fame profiles Dallas Cowboy Head Coach Misérables, Bill Parcells: Right now he is living alone in what amounts to a hotel room in Irving, Tex., whose sole virtue is that...
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