The XX Factor : financial crisis

Did Women Cause Edmund Andrews' Mortgage Mess?

Dayo Olopade — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:50:00 GMT

New York Times reporter Edmund Andrews wrote a doozy of a story in a recent issue of the paper’s magazine, about how he went from a beaming homeowner and newlywed to an anxious debtor who owed hundreds of thousands of dollars on his mortgage. He described...(read more)

Those Wily Female Reporters

Hanna Rosin — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:00 GMT

In his review of the new Warren Buffet biography, Michael Lewis has a great description of how writer Alice Schroeder won over the billionaire by turning his need to be mothered by lovely brainiacs against him... (To read the rest of this post , visit...(read more)

Women and the Mancession

Kerry Howley — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:14:00 GMT

"The World of Womenomics has arrived," announce Claire Shipman and Katy Kay in a breathless piece over at the Huffington Post . Shipman and Kay insist that as the recession tips the gender composition of the workforce in favor of women, companies will...(read more)

The Seppuku Solution

Kerry Howley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:56:00 GMT

Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican from the great state of Iowa, ponders the AIG bonus scandal: I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them if they'd follow the Japanese example and come before the American...(read more)

Catching a Greased AIG

Ann Hulbert — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:33:00 GMT

The New York Times reports that the Obama administration is worried that fast-rising populist fury at financial sector piggishness (post-bailout bonuses for the very people who dealt in credit-default swaps!!) may threaten its recovery plan. But I wonder...(read more)

Iceland's Big Freeze

Willa Paskin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:34:00 GMT

Michael Lewis has a super-engaging, hilarious piece in this month's Vanity Fair about Iceland's economic crisis. (Sample quote, "Because Iceland is really just one big family, it's simply annoying to go around asking Icelanders if they've met Björk. Of...(read more)

Little McMansion on the Prairie

Sara Mosle — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:09:00 GMT

I'm admittedly coming very late to the lengthy, sugar-daddy exchange , but maybe for that reason, after reading all the posts at once, I think it's worth acknowledging what a privileged, upper-middle-class discussion this is. After all, these days, most...(read more)

Tim Geithner: Just Another Chauvinistic Wall Street S.O.B.?

Moe Tkacik — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:37:00 GMT

Not to, like, stereotype of course! The media is instructing feminists to direct our feminist outrage at Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell over a wholly innocuous especially for Rendell comment he made in support of a female potential cabinet member. Normally...(read more)