Aaron Sorkin
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IRA SORKIN Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government. IRA SORKIN As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in ille... IRA SORKIN The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide... IRA SORKIN We're not yet at that point [for a dynamite charge]. They are still talking and not killing each oth... IRA SORKIN I'm not sure this is a linchpin. He will have to point a finger at a much larger control group at An... IRA SORKIN Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes. IRA SORKIN Hard paywalls will never work because, just like at a newsstand, the reader likes to browse the cove... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why lea... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation th... 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ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have falle... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have l... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Wa... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN TARP became so politicized that having money from it was almost like a scarlet letter. There were de... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by par... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might h... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists cre... 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