by Pat Wong | Nov 9, 2015 | Books, Featured, Pat Wong
Against the Gods Book Review Have you ever made a wager in Las Vegas or Atlantic City? Have you made a decision on what insurance premiums you want to pay? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, you have experience with risk management. Since the most recent...
by Ted McLoof | Jun 2, 2014 | Books, Featured, Ted McLoof
When Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl came out in the summer of 2012, it was an instant success, and we don’t have a lot of those in the book world these days. For books not starring dragons or wizards, or books not part of a series, or books written for anyone...
by Pat Wong | Feb 20, 2014 | Books, Featured, Pat Wong
Gillian Tett’s Fool’s Gold is about how the JP Morgan derivatives team conjured up the idea of credit derivatives. It follows the history of the credit derivatives into its perversion and how the corrupted idea helped fuel the recent credit crisis. For anyone in the...
by Andrew Rose | Nov 25, 2013 | All Featured, Andrew Rose, Books, Jennifer O'Connell, Rooker-made, Social
When I was 19 years old, I met a girl. This wasn’t in a romantic sense, but it was a moment that left an impression nonetheless. It was August, the beginning of an academic year, and my teammates and I were attempting to herd a group of freshmen who had expressed...
by Will Ruff | Sep 27, 2013 | Books, Social, Will Ruff
Can I Share a story and a photograph about my first time traveling abroad? Leading up to my trip to Beijing in 2009 I’d seen tons of headlines that talked about how Beijing was quarantining travelers who had a temperature right at the airport. I couldn’t...
by Ted McLoof | Sep 16, 2013 | Books, Entertainment, Ted McLoof
In the title story of Tom Perrotta’s new collection of short fiction, Nine Inches, a high school teacher chaperones a dance, and his job is to separate any students who might be slow-dancing a little too closely. Because of a school-sponsored event that got out of...
