Marlow’s Listener

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 [...]

Public Law 109-145

The Politics of the 1948 Election

And I remember — the thing I remember about Kennedy more than anything else in that period was when we debated. Well, the first debate was not in the ‘60 campaign, where seventy million people listened to the first presidential debate on television, but the first one was a little town called McKeesport, Pennsylvania. The silver-haired [...]

Instead, he inadvertently opened the Berlin Wall

Why can’t you get any pins in East Germany anymore? Because they are being sold to Poland as kebab skewers.

He has created a new international climate

…no major private-label residential mortgage-backed securities deal of which we are aware has directly financed new mortgage loan origination this year