Got Clawbacks? Thugz on the Bailout
…full season of HBO’s The Wire with me. The Thugz were itching to take on the problem of executive compensation — specifically, what to do with leaders of firms who…
In ancient Rome, it was bread and circuses. Today, it’s a World Cup, an Olympics, and a new Saudi-backed golf league that’s challenging the PGA Tour. Can a sporting event…
…full season of HBO’s The Wire with me. The Thugz were itching to take on the problem of executive compensation — specifically, what to do with leaders of firms who…
…of commodities to Cuba — sulphur, wheat, copper wire — and we are the second-largest buyer of Cuban exports, particularly sugar, nickel, fish, citrus fruits, and tobacco. That’s over $1…
…that caused her to give me time each day to work on simple experiments by myself, like making a galvanometer out of a lemon, a compass, and copper wire, or…
In this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt talks to the best-selling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus about finding the profound in the obvious….
…can probably guess what happened. And it looks like animals in salads are all the rage lately — The Atlantic Wire reports that a Wall Street Journal editor recently found…
…back.” If there were a play-by-play announcer for newspaper writing (besides The Wire, I mean), he might say the same thing about this piece by Laura Berman in the Chicago…
He was handed the keys to the global economy just as it started heading off a cliff. Fortunately, he’d seen this movie before.
No. But now is a good time to sort out the potential from the hype. Whether you’re bullish, bearish, or just confused, we’re here to explain what the blockchain can…
She arrived in the U.S. as an 11-year-old refugee, then rose to become Secretary of State. Her views on immigration, nationalism, and borders, from this 2015 interview, are almost strangely…
A recent story on the AP wire: OKLAHOMA CITY — A man got a prison term longer than prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed to because of Larry Bird. The…
…of prosecutions, however, prosecutors are marshaling direct evidence of fraudulent intent through wiretaps, e-mails, text messages, social-media contacts, etc. That high-quality evidence makes it easier to convince co-conspirators to turn…
The filmmaker doesn’t want to be known only for his movies. He tells Steve why he considers himself a writer first, how it feels to be recognized for his role…
To feed 7 billion people while protecting the environment, it would seem that going local is a no-brainer — until you start looking at the numbers.
…to follow with your friends now that The Wire is over. Freakonomics readers will notice that this whole terrible adventure is set off by a real-estate agent who helps a…
…next bed batting around boys’ names. They were cutting it closer to the wire than we had! After eavesdropping for a few minutes, Marshall got up to go to the…
An all-star team of behavioral scientists discovers that humans are stubborn (and lazy, and sometimes dumber than dogs). We also hear about binge drinking, humblebragging, and regrets. Recorded live in…
…approximately five hundred black rhinos that reside in the national parks, conservancies and Intensive Protection Zones of Zimbabwe. Poaching is on the rise, and crippling wire snares are being removed…
…drug dealers. Along the way, she finds herself drawn to a dashing young man (Tristan Wilds, The Wire) who yearns to escape the lifestyle and move with her to the…
The banana, once a luxury good, rose to become America’s favorite fruit. Now a deadly fungus threatens to wipe it out. Can it be saved?
In the final part of our series, Zachary Crockett talks to a man with a storied — and controversial — career in the body parts business….
…in the government’s argument. Here’s an excerpt from the Dow Jones wire report: The Federal Competition Commission, or CFC, said the single price would be counterproductive to promoting reading and…
…to close the gap? Any way to piggy back on the stimulus program? And are private companies attempting to block any public wireless infrastructure? — frankenduf We are far behind…
Every language has its taboo words (which many people use all the time). But the list of forbidden words is always changing — and those changes tell us some surprising…
We’re not sure what that creature cavorting on the sidelines is — but it doesn’t come cheap. Zachary Crockett gets the ballpark figures on everyone’s favorite ballpark figures….
Step 1: Hire a Harvard psych professor as the pitchman. Step 2: Have him help write the script …
…Bowles, whose company distributed Man on Wire and Food, Inc., figures that Freakonomics is just weird enough to work. “This is the business of exceptions and idiosyncrasies,” Mr. Bowles said….
Wouldn’t you know it? On the same day that I was poking fun at Amazon.com for one if its e-mail blitzes, they launch a podcast called Amazon Wire, featuring Steven…
…series The Wire may recall other such policing strategies. Perhaps the most noteworthy was the creation of a red-light district for drug trafficking — the rationale being that geographic restriction…
Every language has its taboo words (which many people use all the time). But the list of forbidden words is always changing — and those changes tell us some surprising…
