- Once the lawyers get through suing over Madoff feeder funds, Big 4 auditing firms might get winnowed down to 3... 2... 1? [Salmon citing NakedShorts and Bronte Capital]
- Leading advocate of laws to ban "workplace bullying", a cause we've often viewed with skepticism, has his own blog now [David Yamada, Minding the Workplace]
- Why are venerable law firms shuttering rather than do mergers w/other firms? Partner liability helps explain [Ribstein]
- Some dismiss "New Deal prolonged the Depression" view as fringey. Are they right? [Tabarrok, MargRev]
- Will he stand up to pseudo-science? Medblogger Orac on pluses and minuses of Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General [Respectful Insolence]
- Bubble-icious public sector: "CalPERS could bankrupt us faster than anything else." [Coyote]



