I forgot to mention that back in April, Simon and I won the annual Color of Money Award from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition for the best writing on economic justice. I’m very proud.
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13 Bankers in Chinese
Posted on March 11, 2011 by James Kwak
Published by China CITIC Press. Read all about it here. If you can read Chinese, that is.
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Exciting New Endorsement
Posted on May 13, 2010 by James Kwak
I know that we have a lot of fans in the world of economists and policy wonks, but I am always excited to get endorsements from outside the usual suspects, especially when they are the movers and shakers in the world of culture. So I was very happy to hear that our book Stephen Metcalf’s [...]
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Book Discussion at Huffington Post
Posted on May 4, 2010 by James Kwak
(Updated as of May 4.) So far, we’ve had: Tyler Cowen arguing that it is the government that is calling the shots, not the banks — “It’s our government deciding to assemble a cooperative ruling coalition – which includes banks — at the heart of its fiscal core.” Noam Scheiber arguing that the administration is [...]
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Charts!
Posted on April 19, 2010 by James Kwak
I forgot to mention that four of the more important charts from 13 Bankers are in last week’s post on The Huffington Post. And, Tyler Cowen’s discussion of the book is also up at The Huffington Post. I think we’ll probably wait for a couple of more posts and then write a synthesized response.
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Interview with Christopher Lydon
Posted on April 15, 2010 by James Kwak
I did a long interview with Christopher Lydon for Radio Open Source. I’m especially proud of this because Lydon was one of the people who pioneered podcasting, although he insists that Dave Winer did most of the work. At my company I used to do a very low-tech podcast, basically using an external microphone plugged [...]
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More Media Stuff
Posted on April 9, 2010 by James Kwak
If you want to see a full-length presentation, there are videos available of Simon’s appearance at MIT and the World Affairs Council of Washington last week. Also, I’ll be talking to Larry Doyle of Sense on Cents on Sunday evening at 8 Eastern.
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Christopher Dodd Is Reading It
Posted on April 1, 2010 by James Kwak
Talking to Don Imus on Fox Business (around the 1:20 mark): Imus: “Did you read The Big Short, by Michael Lewis?” Dodd: “I’ve got it, but I haven’t read it. I’ve been reading 13 Banks, by this other fellow.”
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Apparently Some Bookstores Have It …
Posted on March 28, 2010 by James Kwak
Such as the Borders in Silver Spring, according to one commenter.
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In-Person Events
Posted on March 18, 2010 by James Kwak
We’ve added a new Events page to the site (which you should see at the top of the page if you’re viewing this on the site). Right now this lists scheduled events that are open to the public, should you want to see what we look like in person. We’ll be adding more as they [...]
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