By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.