Marlow’s Listener

The euro-zone members had promised to support the common currency with a common policy. The problem was that they were not prepared to make good on their promise.

the deal would be remembered as a public acquisition ‘as monumental as the creation of the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone.

Ben Bernacke, Tim Geitner and Sheila Bair are still in office, but Hank (the “Tank”) Paulson is on the beach and the newly published author of this inside-the-Beltway first-person I-was-there.

So, what do you get the man who has everything? We can safely assume that Paulson, the CEO of Goldman Sachs at the time, was well [...]

This is a paper I wrote as a joke about 2 years ago and sadly will be the most successful thing I ever write.

They can’t find a position anywhere that uses the skills on which they most prided themselves in college. They are forced to learn about new things that don’t interest them nearly as much. No one is impressed by their knowledge of Jane Austen.

On the other hand, you could incur $150-200K debt to obtain a [...]

In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced an apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: ‘Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her level of maximum incompetence’. Despite its apparent unreasonableness, such a principle would realistically act in [...]

Of course, a small automobile would only be useful for the mites to drive around in, and I suppose our Christian interests don’t go that far.

J&J will shrink its 117,000-member workforce by 6 percent to 7 percent