Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
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The Most Embarrassing Leaked Memos
Toyota bragged in an internal memo about saving $100 million by convincing regulators to stop investigating complaints about its cars-and now all of America knows. From Big Tobacco to Enron to Fox News, read some of the all-time most incriminating corporate memos.
The Decade's 10 Best and Worst Career Moves
Who made proactive moves necessary for success in this volatile decade? Who shot themselves in the foot? And what can we learn from them both? The Daily Beast picks the winners and losers, career-wise.
The Pay Czar's New Rules
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Robert Pozen is the author of TOO BIG TO SAVE? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System. He is Chairman of MFS Investment Management®, and was formerly president of Fidelity Management & Research Company. He is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and has contributed numerous articles to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Financial Times.
In the latest crackdown, Kenneth Feinberg announced a $500K salary cap on executives at bailed-out firms. Robert Pozen on how the banks can clean house-and get the feds off their backs.
Worse Than Enron?
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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.
Wall Street's big banks are playing dangerous new accounting games-and this time taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of billions. Nomi Prins uncovers a scandal in the making.
How Wall Street Will Ruin the Environment
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Robert Bryce has written for numerous publications ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to The Guardian and The Nation to The American Conservative. His first book, Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2002 by Publishers Weekly. His latest book, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence,” was published in 2008 by PublicAffairs.
The House of Representatives votes today on cap-and-trade legislation that will make pollution a tradable commodity. Robert Bryce on why the Sierra Club's favored legislation is full of methane.
They Saw It Coming
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Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. Next year the first volume of his long-awaited biography of Charlie Parker will appear.
Two "half-fine bitches" predicted the financial crisis that has now engulfed us. If only we'd listened.
How Oscars Ruin a Marriage
The Pure Greed of Obama's Phony Health-Care Reform
Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author. He directed and produced Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko. He has also written seven books, most recently, Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
The Honorable Press Baron
The author of six books, Steve Weinberg has been a longtime board member of the National Book Critics Circle and currently teaches investigative journalism at the University of Missouri Journalism School. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.
My Pal Paul Newman
A. E. Hotchner is the author of the international bestsellers Papa Hemingway, Doris Day: Her Own Story, Sophia, and his own memoir, King of the Hill. He has adapted many of Hemingway's works for the screen.
Women in The World Featured Panel: Rape as a Weapon of War
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