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The NYT has a fascinating set of slides based on search entered on Allrecipes.com, . The most common term? “Sweet potato casserole” ... by a country mile. But my favorite from the Top 50 was #16:
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The New York Times Company
On this Thanksgiving Day, I am grateful for the same sort of things mentioned by random people on the streets of New York ...
But reading a fascinating interview with Umberto Eco, I was reminded that I am also thankful for the ability to learn and grow and change:
I was fascinated ...
Other
Robert Pozen's Response Follows: Let me begin by thanking Jay and Satya for their thoughtful reviews of my book. I also want to thank Gordon Smith for facilitating these online book reviews. They are a great tool for learning and discussion. I appreciate that both books focus on the ...
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Financial Crisis
Satya Thallam is the Director of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, an interdisciplinary group of scholars who conduct research and advise policymakers on financial regulatory reform efforts. He was previously the 2007 Hernando de Soto ...
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Financial Crisis
I am pleased to return to the Conglomerate today to host another in the successful line of Conglomerate Book Clubs. Today we will be taking a look at Too Big to Save? How To Fix the U.S. Financial System by Robert Pozen. I will also be joined by Satya Thallam, Director of the Mercatus ...
Government
Financial Crisis
Oprah Winfrey interviewed Sarah Palin last week and
hinted that the former VP candidate may be in talks to launch a talk show. “Should
I be worried?” Oprah asked with a coy smile (she would announce retirement days
later). If Oprah is not above paranoia
about job security, who are ...
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With all the investors in distress news in today's Times, I'm just glad that we're somewhat close to Thanksgiving. This Madoff motion by the investors who think their losses ought to include some of the scheme's paper profits is pretty cheeky, and completely antithetical to the way the trustee ...
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FDIC
In connection with a story I was reading about the SEC’s outreach efforts to promote financial literacy among elementary students, I stumbled across a pretty depressing survey on financial literacy in young Americans. Last Friday, officials from the SEC, FINRA and the Jump$tart ...
Government
The Financial Modelers' Manifesto
Financial Crisis
Regular readers may remember that last year my family and became engaged with the Advent Conspiracy movement, which seemed to us at the time to be a fairly noncontroversial attempt to reform Christmas into a holiday spent giving time and attention to family and friends instead of swapping ...
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I'm back from the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at USC (at which I presented this paper ) - always one of the best conferences around. Love the precision timing of the talks, the interesting papers, and I think you'll find that it is one of the relatively rare conferences where lots of ...
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Apparently it is not a good idea to give gifts for the holidays--at least it is not a good idea to give them to people you do not really know. This according to Joel Waldfogel, a Wharton professor and author of Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays , published in ...
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Many thanks to Gordon Smith and company for inviting me to guest blog on The Conglomerate . I am delighted to discover in academia a place like The Conglomerate – a home for legal scholars engaged in the development of corporate law. During my years as a transactional lawyer at ...
Government
Gordon Brown
The Financial Modelers' Manifesto
Dan Black
Financial Crisis
We are very pleased to welcome Kristin Johnson as a guest blogger at the The Glom for the next two weeks. Since 2008, Kristin has been at Seton Hall University School of Law , where she teaches Business Associations and Securities Regulation. She has worked for JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and ...
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Simon Johnson
Goldman Sachs
My guest-blogging stint has come to an end. And the semester is winding down. So it is time to tie things together. I've tried to cover a lot of ground in two weeks -- starting with the Berlin Wall , moving on to predictions of trouble ahead for the law school business model, analyzing the ...
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My time at the Glom is drawing to a close. So to mark the coming week and to mix the sublime and the ridiculous (as in my wont), I'd thought I'd give a list of some of the things I am thankful for this year (at least those not-too-personal things that seem to fit in the 4 themes of this blog ...
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I've spend a good chunk of my guest-blogging stint making dismal predictions about the future of law schools. In reply to Usha's post , the first thing I thought about is how these predictions will affect me. I waited a long time to become a law professor, and I'm having a ball. So clouds ...
Other
Financial Crisis
Following my post on revisiting the " Contracts Crisis ", I am wondering how those of you teaching Business Associations and Corporations have integrated the financial crisis into your classes.
I'm sure that the crisis will make my end-of-the semester class on Corporate Social ...
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Financial Crisis
Christine had a really provocation post several months back on whether the financial crisis reflected a "Contracts Crisis" to rival the "Torts Crisis" we hear so much about. This merits continued discussion.
The basic question is whether the financial crisis is ...
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Financial Crisis
Open source and peer production ideas can also improve law teaching. There have been some very helpful trends already in this direction. Many legal scholars post articles on teaching and even some suggested exercises on SSRN. Larry Cunningham (GW) edits the SSRN 'Law Educator' e-Journal. In ...
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Social Democrats
Business law professors can learn a lot about teaching from our colleagues in trial practice. Last week, I mentioned how Therese Maynard (Loyola-LA) has developed a Business Planning simulation course for over 60 students. She uses practitioners as co-teachers using Trial Practice ...
