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...subjects of Michael Lewis' books are normally the best at what they do. In Liar's Poker, he laid bare the freewheeling culture of Wall Street bond traders; in Moneyball, he broke down the statistical alchemy of managing a pro-baseball team. In his latest book, however, his subject is far humbler, and has much to be humble about. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood is a memoir of Lewis' own first steps (and missteps) as a father - one who shirks diaper-changing, passes out drunk as his wife prepares to deliver their second child and ponders whether most...
...that the White House has laid out its plans for financial regulation, figuring out what to do with Fannie and Freddie may be the next task at hand. This week President Obama said he plans to have a proposal on what to do with the mortgage insurers by early next year. Fannie and Freddie, which guarantee to pay lenders and investors in the event that a borrower defaults, were set up by Congress. But while they were run as private companies, it was long understood that if the companies ran into trouble, the government would step in to save them...
...which would be able to pool more effectively to keep down costs. It's the only plan that's been scored by the Congressional Budget Office as deficit neutral, and it lays out a more comprehensive approach. Senator Judd Gregg, the top Republican on the Budget Committee, also recently laid out a proposal that expands private health-insurance coverage; and Senator Mike Enzi, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has said he too is working on legislation. Some of the bills aren't actually meant to be comprehensive. The patients' bill introduced by Senator...
Ross then laid the carrots on thick, dispensing with the formal line that the U.S. doesn't talk to Iran. On the weekend of March 27, a U.S. diplomat discussed economic issues with his Iranian counterpart in Moscow. Days later, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, met with Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Mehdi Akhundzadeh at an international conference in the Hague. At a Friends of Pakistan meeting in Tokyo, one of Holbrooke's diplomats met with his Iranian counterpart. And in a secret back-channel outreach in April, State Department staffers working for Ross got clearance...
...came the most influential of the stocks-vs.-bonds studies yet, Jeremy Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run. The book, which laid out the records of stocks and bonds going back to 1802 and found stocks winning by a mile for almost every 30-year period over those two centuries, became a must-read for investors. Siegel--a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School--became what one journalist described as "the intellectual godfather of the 1990s bull market...