I cannot figure out why you PR people keep sending me PDFs of articles, but then don’t post it online. Do you want the publicity or not?
If yes, than a) post it on your site; b) THEN send out the email.
Its kinda hard to link to meatspace items on a blog . . .
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
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July 3rd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Love Michael Lewis’ writing and this seems like a more realistic assessment of what went down at AIG-FP. Doesn’t it seem like at the heart of any monumental disaster is a stubborn/dictatorial leader who refuses to believe he can ever be wrong?
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Doesn’t it seem like at the heart of any monumental disaster is a stubborn/dictatorial leader who refuses to believe he can ever be wrong?
I can think of two people that applies to. One of them has initials in common with AIG.
July 4th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
[...] exclusive to VF, Rolling Stone does it, too, but it is an annoying way of using the web. Barry Ritholtz takes them to task for this, and then publishes the PDF that they sent him to drum up publicity. If [...]