Month: July 2009

As was mentioned in yesterday’s “Baseball Trivia” post, Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak came to an end on July 17, 1941.  (The other baseball story that caught the nation’s attention…

Click play above to watch interview with SecondMarket's Jeremy Smith on the secondary market in California IOUs. (If video is slow to load, the outlink is here). A while back, ...

Can the return of  Henry Africa be far behind?  Starbucks, in an effort to find more ways to make money off of potables, is dipping its toe into the wine and…

I know it's only July, but I guess it's time to start planning for the fall submission season.  A colleague helpfully pointed me to a document on SSRN by Profs…

Normally I've posted a baseball trivia question on the weekend, but I'll post this one today for reasons obvious from the clues.  Also, mindful that one faithful reader thought last…

Will law school get shorter, longer, or disappear altogether? Some of these on-going discussions about the future of law schools have transpired over the course of the last few weeks,…

Via Freakonomics, and following up on Mark's credit card post from yesterday: An unidentified computer glitch has led Visa to overcharge several of its cardholders for routine purchases at drug…

Visual Economics has an interesting, though slightly disturbing, pie chart that shows how the average American consumer spends his or her money.  If there's a punchline there, it's that the average person…

The LA Times, in what can only be called a sophisticated form of humor, has just published its Best of Postmodernist Literature list.  It doesn't quite call it that, of…

Cal-Berkeley law professor, and former Justice Department official, John Yoo (pictured) has an editorial in today's WSJ:  Why We Endorsed Warrantless Wiretaps.   You can read the editorial (and numerous…