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I often use this column to discuss, some might say whine, about the economic realities that we small firm and solo practitioners deal with as we eke out a living. I usually point out how great a life it seems ...

Swaps live. Yes, states and localities across the nation are paying millions of dollars to get out of the interest-rate swaps and other derivatives that they engaged in during the past decade. Yes, Jefferson County, Ala., has been toying with ...

Republicans running under the deadly drags of a financial crisis, an unpopular president and the political cycle didn’t do as poorly in the U.S. elections as some had feared. Barack Obama won by about seven percentage points, more than Bill ...

Robert Rubin, former Treasury secretary and current Citigroup Inc. director and senior counselor, found himself in the middle of a media storm last week. On Nov. 23, the New York Times published an article, now disputed by Citigroup, that suggested ...

At the end of “The Man Who Owns the News,” Michael Wolff gets a glimpse of Rupert Murdoch the reporter. Arriving for an interview one morning, Wolff finds Murdoch hunched over a phone in a white shirt, singlet showing. The ...

President-elect Barack Obama introduced the nation to his economic team at a series of no-frills press conferences last week. The choices spell experience. Harvard University professor Larry Summers will head the National Economic Council, a creation of President Bill Clinton ...

Lawrence Summers is a brilliant, sometimes arrogant economist who can be hard to work with. Timothy Geithner, whose sharp mind has been honed by five years of dealing with the heads of the world’s largest financial institutions, got his job ...

This year has been an unending barrage of burst bubbles, financial crises and bailouts. There just doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. One corner of the economy that has received only a fraction of the attention given to ...

I have not visited the Klassy Cat in Rochester, N.Y., but I am told that it features pole dancing. “Ugh,” you groan, “pole dancing is strip tease by another name.” You concede that it is expressive conduct protected by the ...

Bob Woodward. Photo by Dennis Brack, Bloomberg News It’s not cool for a journalist to be awed by an interview subject, or at least to admit it publicly. As a writer for Minnesota Lawyer for the last 10 years, I’ve ...

I have not visited the Klassy Cat in Rochester, N.Y., but I am told that it features pole dancing. “Ugh,” you groan, “pole dancing is strip tease by another name.” You concede that it is expressive conduct protected by the ...