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16 Aug 2011, 6:23 am
(Kenneth Anderson) A: When they send a child off to college.I don’t know who first said that, but it’s true in my case. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 7:26 am
by Kenneth Anderson The UN Secretary General … circa 2050, Earth, talking with Kip who, along with Peewee, has just saved the Earth from invading aliens who were using the Moon as a forward base: "Russell, I heard on your tape that you plan to study engineering - with a view to space. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 8:19 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Death-bet insurance involves a person taking out life insurance, and then turning around and selling the policy to a stranger — a hedge fund, for example, via intermediaries — who pays the premiums and collects after the insured’s death. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 7:58 am
(Kenneth Anderson) The LA Times has a good story on the complete backing away of the CIA from any new detentions or interrogations in counterterrorism under the Obama administration (though it started back under the Bush administration). [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 7:18 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) I had the privilege of moderating a panel today at the Yale International Law Journal annual confab of “junior” (meaning untenured) scholars, a panel on accountability of international organizations. [read post]
17 May 2012, 11:09 pm
by Kenneth Anderson [This is the third day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 7:00 am
(Kenneth Anderson) I have told My Beloved Wife that I think it’s time we gave up sending snail mail Christmas cards. [read post]
13 Dec 2009, 8:46 am
by Kenneth Anderson One of my favorite issues of the New York Times Magazine is its "year in ideas" issue, which comes annually in December. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 6:12 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) The Manhattan Institute’s EJ McMahon argues for alternatives to state bankruptcy in the Wall Street Journal today. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 8:11 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Desperate times call for desperate creative fantasizing ... isn’t one of the problems of our higher education bubble the poorly aligned incentives for the universities providing the eduction? [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 3:08 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) As I have occasionally noted here at VC, this term the Supreme Court will hear an Alien Tort Statute case, the Kiobel case, in which a primary question is whether the ATS embraces a theory of corporate liability. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 8:13 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Presswires are reporting that Judge John Bates has dismissed the case which the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights sought to bring on behalf of Anwar Al-Aulaqi’s father, contesting the ability of the President to target an American citizen hiding abroad in Yemen who the government says is a targetable participant in a terrorist group covered by the AUMF. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 11:16 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Amid the debates over rising student loan debt that is undischargeable in bankruptcy, I have not seen a lot of public discussion over provisions of law that provide special forgiveness benefits to those who go to work for government or nonprofits. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 8:19 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) When I saw this item on Professor Greg Mankiw’s blog, I admit that my first thought was ... someone has written Anti-Mankiw, Vols 1 and 2. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 9:31 pm
by Kenneth Anderson (Amended: Kevin suggests in the comments that this is a cheap shot at the UN, and after sleeping on it, I agree. [read post]
10 Apr 2010, 2:53 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) Todd’s right, Andy Ferguson’s Weekly Standard piece is excellent — whether one agrees with his ultimate take on it or not. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 7:48 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) A reader sends me the following comment, further to the several VC posts on behavioral economics (initially occasioned by Andy Ferguson’s Weekly Standard essay): One basic issue that this whole-“behavioral econ– good-or-bad? [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 8:30 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Treat liquidity risk and runs on institutions as fundamentally a question of lack of information — the lack of information on the underlying financial solvency prompting flight from uncertainty. [read post]
5 May 2012, 11:14 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Among the many articles tracking the decline and, presumably shortly, fall of the law firm Dewey & Leboeuf, I found New York Times business columnist James B. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 4:50 pm
by Kenneth Anderson I'm sorry I wasn't and I don't quite know what happened. [read post]
