The Next Meltdown
Nomi Prins is author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley, September, 2009). Before becoming a journalist, she worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and running the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London.
Obama came to Wall Street today to chide it for ignoring lessons, but it's Washington that's embracing the current system, reinflating the bubble-with taxpayer dollars, writes Nomi Prins.
Sony Drops Pitt for Clooney?
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
The Daily Beast's Kim Masters wonders why the studio canned Brad Pitt's Moneyball when it's bankrolling a staggeringly expensive James L. Brooks comedy-and has just inked a production deal with the money-losing George Clooney.
From Porn to the Multiplex
Glenn Kenny was a senior editor and chief film critic for Premiere magazine from 1996 to 2007. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, FIlm Comment, The DGA Quarterly, and other publications. He writes about film for the website The Auteurs' Notebook and blogs at Some Came Running.
Porn megastar Sasha Grey goes mainstream, starring in Steven Soderbergh's Girlfriend Experience. She talks to Glenn Kenny about dirty films, sexual existentialism-and turning 21.
The cascading collapse in the world of finance that began with mortgage-backed securities spread through commercial banks, investment banks, European banks, Asian banks like a mysterious disease that was transmitted in some unknown fashi...
Mortimer B. Zuckerman is chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Boston Properties Inc. He is a trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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