Goodbye to AIG

March 25, 2009 11:43 AM by Sam Bostaph

The NYT today published the letter of resignation of Jake DeSantis, Executive Vice President of the A.I.G. Financial Products division. He's been working 10-14 hours a day for $1, but won't work for a boss (Edward M. Liddy) who will roll over for political hacks like of Bernie Sanders. He will give his bonus to charity, rather than see it go back into the amorphous pile.

It's a great letter, and he's lucky that there's no Wesley Mouch (yet) to enslave him.

Not One Damn Dime Day

January 5, 2005 2:14 PM by Sam Bostaph

A fascinating movement that has been swelling for weeks via the blogosphere is the "Not One Damn Dime" campaign. Here is one of a thousand postings of this. The idea is to withhold all spending on January 20, Inauguration Day, in protest against the Iraq War. The question is whether this is an effective campaign or whether people who oppose the war should join. As an economist and opponent of the war, I take what might be seen as a counterintuitive position: I'm all for this and I'm going to join!

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A Day in the Life of...

September 30, 2004 9:08 AM by Sam Bostaph

An email called "A Day in the Life of Joe Republican" is making the rounds via a thousand blogs. It is designed to illustrate how the middle class benefits enormously from big government and is too stupid to realize it.

In response, I began the following alternative "Day in the Life":

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