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Dishonest derivatives:  "Fiasco" author with Terry Gross on Fresh Air

Frank Partnoy: Derivative Dangers 

March 25, 2009 from Fresh Air 

TERRY GROSS, host: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. My guest, Frank Partnoy, spent two years selling derivatives, those complex…

The Bribe Economy:  Personal leverage and misalignment of interests

The challenge....

More on social security.....

More on social security.....

The difference between Social Security and Madoff....

Pensions & Social Security: A demographic time bomb

These thoughts inspired by NPR's Planet Money story on January 6, 2009.

One of the best, and most important lectures I've ever heard was back in 1980, about how the Social Security System was doomed…

A summary of Bush's 8 years

I'm not usually as liberal as Bob Herbert of the New York Times, but his 12/30/08 op ed piece entitled "Add up the Damage" sums up the really bad things that have happened to/in the US over the past…

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