Day February 15, 2008

How to navigate voice-recognition call centers

My father-in-law discovered a wonderful way to bypass annoying call centers with voice recognition software that insists you answer several questions before routing your call. Which would be ok except that the voice recognition is inept and it often keeps…

Auction rate securities find no buyers

A recent attempted sale of over one hundred auction rate securities failed to find any buyers. Dealbreaker explains why this seemingly esoteric event could have nasty repercussions. In the private wealth group, they’ve been treating these things as if they…

Russia’s new gulags

While reactionary troglodytes continue to roam the editorial pages of the WSJ (see previous post), their reporting, as always, remains superb. Bret Stephens of the WSJ discusses his story, Putin’s Torture Colonies, in this video. Robert Amsterdam has continuing coverage…