On October 11 & 12, the University of Illinois College of Law will host the 12th annual Midwestern Law & Economics Association conference. The event consists of law professors and economists presenting papers with varying degrees of…
On the Valuation of Hedge Funds (or Hedge Fund Managers)
So Felix Salmon has taken a justifiable swipe at some oddish Bloomberg articles on Citibank's spinoff of its internal hedge fund, as required by the Volcker Rule. But in doing so, it seems as though he may have hit his...
Cries for Relief from the Hungarian Financial Crisi
No, not that Hungarian financial crisis. Now that the country seems to have more or less righted itself, its citizens are still struggling with their own debts. Reuters reports that the Managing Director of the National Bank of Hungary has...
As far as I know, Harvard Law School's employment numbers are strong enough that there's no need for it to play games. That said, you have to wonder how tempted HLS is to take advantage of the most famous member...
RunOregon has my recap of the Run for Boston 5K race from this past weekend, which resulted in a Pr for me -- but a kind of frustrating one, since it was 21:00 flat. Just one lousy second faster and...
What if . . . Congressional leaders and the President could only use lines from "A Game of Thrones"?
The other night, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (yes, if I watch a late-night talk show, it's Leno's) had a pretty hilarious skit with Trevor Moore and Mikey Day. Basically, the two guys sit around in some L.A. location...