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Under the Paperweight (a hefty paperweight itself): Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Reviews

Sunroom Desk reports on Drucker Business Forum in Pasadena featuring Joseph P. Quinlan, author of The Last Economic Superpower.

The Road from Ruin: Bishop Points the Way at Drucker Business Forum

Author Matthew Bishop offers ideas for reforming the financial system at recent Drucker Business Forum event and interview with Patt Morrison at KPCC studios in Pasadena, California.

An Inside View: Pay Government Regulators More!

Two recent posts argue that government regulators should be paid at least as much as those in private industry.

Under the Paperweight, February 1-7, 2009

Last week’s Paperweight articles all cover the highly uncertain business climate and its effect on Glendale, California.

From Wall Street Finance to Glendale, California and T-Mobile: Leadership Needed

Steven Pearlstein’s editorial in The Washington Post today imagined an alternative universe in which a top Wall Street executive took control of a 2006 investors’ meeting, decrying the company’s excessive risk taking, warped loan underwriting standards, and the credit bubble. Pearlstein argues that a business leader who had taken these steps might have suffered in [...]