Sheep Market & Amazon Mechanical Turk - Sheep market is both audacious, hilarious & fascinating (the things people will do for 2 pennies!?) and also, by introducing me to Mechanical Turk proved to be a great resource for help. Number one of the year!
Michael Lewis in Portfolio on "The End" - Hands down best article of the year by one of my all time favorites. He also just wrote a great NYTimes op-ed with David Einhorn (Part I Part II)
Dick Fuld and the downfall of Lehman
New Yorker profile of Ben Bernanke
Washington Post three-part article on AIG
The Man Who Invented New York by Tom Wolfe - classic portrait of New York Magazine founder Clay Felker. A couple of highlights:
"I remember Clay saying, “Look … we’re coming out once a week, right? And The New Yorker comes out once a week. And we start out the week the same way they do, with blank paper and ink. Is there any reason why we can’t be as good as The New Yorker? … Or better. They’re so damned dull.”'Another fascinating piece by Tom Wolfe (granted from 1965) on the rise of stock car racing (precursor of Nascar), the drivers & fans, particularly the first superstar, Junior Johnson. One of the "7 Greatest Esquire stories ever published."
"They became known as the “art birds.” As late as 1989 Japanese art collectors liked to have these pretty little American girls by their sides in the front rows for the “important” auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. They loved the pretty things’ lithe young legs with their epidermi of sheerest ravage-me nylon shimmering up to the most tumescent swells of their thighs as they crossed and then re-crossed and then re-re-crossed and then re-re-re-crossed them shimmer shimmer shimmer shimmer beneath the downlighters."
Basically this whole New York Times series "The Reckoning" is phenomenal but my particular favorites were the articles on Merrill and Citi
I could not put down the epic seven-part post election Newsweek series "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign" Probably will win a Pulitzer. Not that I have any idea as to what the criteria are for a Pulitzer but amazing comprehensive coverage from the primaries through election day.
Best law passed all year. In Texas of course.
Daily Show was really on point covering the election with some HILARIOUS stuff
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