Wall Street, Mukasey, etc.

This is a fascinating article by Michael Lewis where he boldly predicts that the era defined by Investment Banks on Wall Street is over. He uses the story of Meredith Whitney and Steve Eisman to craft his tale. It's a fun read.

In other news, Attorney General Michael Mukasey literally collapsed in the midst of his speech.



If this is familiar, you may be thinking of Alben Barkley.

Alben Barkley was Vice President under Truman. A famously humble man he would refer to himself as the Veep. After Truman refused to run a third time, he returned to the US Senate and sat on the back benches. In his last speech in 1956, he famously declared: "I'm glad to sit on the back row, for I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty." before dropping dead. You can hear the dramatic event in this NPR piece.