Taxing Banks for the Bailout On Wednesday night I spoke at the Rotary Club in Boston. We discussed my novel, Top Producer, but concentrated on Wall Street and the topic of bonuses. It seems everybody wants the finance industry to justify its compensation. Bank CEOs have taken their case to the public. But they haven’t [...]
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For Bankers, Saying ‘Sorry’ Has Its Perils As a kid and Air Force brat, I didn’t like Catch-22 much. The novel, while laugh-out-loud funny, speared the military and hit too close to home. As a blogger and novelist, however, I admire Joseph Heller’s writing techniques. Especially his use of repetition. In Catch-22, different characters keep [...]

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