Month: August 2009

On Wednesday, the FDIC released new rules (available in PDF here) regarding private equity acquisition of failed banking institutions.  From the New York Times: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation board…

Simply because it is hard to imagine a more entertaining way to find Highway 61, and because life is truly stranger than fiction, I offer for your consideration this story indicating…

In an effort to empathize with those people on the entry level market anxiously awaiting calls from interested schools, I thought I might try and start a parallel "anxiety thread"…

Most people don’t understand sarcasm.  At Psychcentral, via Andrew Sullivan: the majority of people — 55 percent — who responded to this survey thought they were giving an example of…

The bank failures are coming fast and furious (and large) now – a poor blawger can barely keep up.  In my last post on bank failures, Bank Failures Update And…

We're very pleased to welcome Eric Fink as a guest blogger here at the Faculty Lounge.  Eric is an Associate Professor at Elon School of Law.  He is a graduate…

As I predicted in my last post on this topic, Richard Posner’s current dispute with the macroeconomists continues to provide entertainment and, perhaps, education (at least for me).  For example,…

For a small fee, of course.  Via Tyler Cowen, two websites -- Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA and JesusPets – that promise a service in which atheists who are also animal-lovers…

You don't see this every day: two feuding families rioted in bustling downtown Marion, Aalabama (pop. 29,465) today.  I'm surprised the National Guard wasn't called in; everyone else was!  The…

So, my calendar says the second AALS FAR distribution happens this week.  Anyone want to guess how many CVs this time around?Since I was so way off the first time,…