Date: January 9th, 2005

Football signing bonuses and affordable housing

9 January, 2005 (15:24) | Finance, Theory |

What does NFL football have to do with affordable housing?  More than you think. 
Last week, at the end of a game his team really needed to win, the Minnesota Vikings’ star player, Randy Moss, walked off the field before it was over.  Despite this, he has neither been disciplined nor criticized.   
Moss … had an […]

World Bank’s next president: tracking the candidates

9 January, 2005 (09:12) | World news |

Now there’s a blog devoted just to this question, with pithy quotes like this: 
Rock star Wolfensohn. “Less than a decade ago, the bank was under siege by antiglobalization protesters,” writes Harvard economist, Kenneth Rogoff, in a report card for James Wolfensohn. “Today it’s popular in many quarters.” “And just as Wolfensohn has improved the bank’s […]