December 11, 2009
From a WSJ opinion lamenting the state of Manhattan Chinese food (of all things): Walk through New York's Chinatowns—there are two—and you'd think that the Chinese don't know about fine dining. Here it's all about shared tables at food stalls and loud, crowded dining halls that feel trapped in an era when Mao was still [...]
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April 20, 2009
I discovered this Atlantic article ("Why I Fired My Broker") on MB's blog. I came to enjoy it in the end, but while I was reading it I was struck by how representative it is of contemporary financial journalism. This is the new cookie cutter article: naive reporter is encouraged by rich capitalists to invest, [...]
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