washingtonpost.com - Steven PearlsteinSteven PearlsteinBanking Is Still a Wonderful Life- April 23, 2005 If there ever was a good time to be a banker, this would be it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3120-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_business/column... Lapsed Lawyers Find a Good Fit With Finance- April 23, 2005 When John Delaney wants to add another lender-dealmaker to his team at CapitalSource, the hot new corporate finance shop in Chevy Chase, he doesn't need to call a headhunter or take out a help-wanted ad. All he has to do is put the word out in the network of associates at Washington law firms and wait for the phone to ring.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25737-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Tough Choices For World's Finance Leaders- April 23, 2005 Let's give a warm Washington welcome to the finance ministers and central bankers who are in town from all corners of the globe to attend the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. We hope you'll enjoy our ritzy hotels, eat at our fine restaurants, maybe even take in a baseball game. And, as always, the Metropolitan Police Department is at your disposal to keep the protesters at bay while ensuring you never get caught in the traffic jams you create.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55150-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Science Needs A Profit Motive- April 23, 2005 A Massachusetts politician once told me, over lunch at Boston's Locke-Ober cafe, that most systems work best when lubricated with a bit of moral ambiguity.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62214-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_business/column... 'Get Wal-Mart' Bill Is Just For Show- April 23, 2005 There's nothing I'd like more than to ride to the defense of legislation requiring employers to provide a minimal level of health insurance for all employees. But the "get Wal-Mart" bill just approved by the Maryland legislature is a metaphor for much that is wrong about public policymaking in this country.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48301-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Innovation Comes From Within- April 23, 2005 At 9 a.m., Dr. Julio Panza begins his rounds at the coronary care unit at Washington Hospital Center. Residents and fellows review the status of the 14 patients in the unit. Panza takes notes and records his diagnoses and orders with a pen, as doctors have for centuries.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5780-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_business/columns... Fannie and Freddie, Finally Forging Ahead- April 23, 2005 Hallelujah! The FannieFreddie wars are over.Thanks to accounting scandals that have cleared executives' suites and laid low their once-formidable lobbying machines, the giant mortgage lenders have accepted the inevitability of getting a strong new regulator that will rein in their...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35830-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/column... News Media Grope for the Right Formula- April 23, 2005 It is not lost on those of us who work in newsrooms that more and more readers pay absolutely nothing for the services that we provide.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33670-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Arguing Against Tighter Controls Is Short-Sighted- April 23, 2005 For years I was blessed with perfect eyesight. Then one day, when I was getting my driver's license renewed, I stepped up to the testing machine, where the clerk asked me to read the letters on the second line. Complying, I explained there was something wrong with the machine.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28516-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_business/column... What 'Dr. Bush' Ought to Prescribe- April 23, 2005 During his State of the Union message tonight, Dr. Bush will say he's got a plan for treating America's health care disease, with its excessive costs, mediocre results and 45 million uninsured. But his prescription is driven more by market ideology than logic and experience. And, at best, it will yield small results.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55561-2005Feb1.html?nav=rss_business/column... |