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Don’t Pity the Poor JP Morgan Shareholder

Accountability has to be the key underpinning of modern capitalism.

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Learning to Love Inflation (Thanks To Quantitative Easing)

Why should real capitalists and long-term investors love quantitative easing?

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Bringing About Real Corporate Change in Bad Industries

Is capital itself the only practical force capable of restraining capitalism’s own excesses?

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The Capital Paradox

Will groupthink about bank capital ratios merely set the stage for yet another banking crisis?

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President Obama, Call the Republicans’ Bluff

Why would slashing government spending be more dangerous than a short-term failure to raise the debt ceiling?

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President Obama, Plug the Hole

Is President Obama the only man who can plug the hole in American governance?

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