Alex Marshall


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  • A Grid That Could Outsmart Sandy

    The more than 8 million people without power this week may not be reassured to hear it, but power failures in the wake of superstorm Sandy could have been much more widespread.

  • Will Penguin-Random Raise the Price of My Book?

    I have a new book out, and it’s been for sale at various prices. Try $9.99, $13.75, $16.17, $18.25, $21.66 and, with tax, $27.18.

  • Cancer Breakthroughs Meet Market Realities

    When Apostolia M. Tsimberidou was a young hematologist, a diagnosis of chronic myelogenous leukemia meant a patient had only a few years to live.

  • What Women Really Want (and How We Can Get It)

    This election is making me feel oh so special. One party is gallantly protecting me from the other party’s “war on women.” The president wants my vote so badly that he’s trying to scare me with his opponent’s plan to return to “the social policy of the 1950s,” which I assume means back-alley abortions. Both parties are aggressively courting me in their quest for the women’s vote.

  • Low Rates Lure Yield Seekers Onto Thin Ice

    Some investors are pursuing the safety of federally insured deposits. Others are dissatisfied with low nominal and negative real returns and are moving further out on the risk spectrum in their zeal for yield, regardless of whether they understand the additional risk they are incurring.

  • There’s No Business Like the Brokerage Business

    If regulators and brokerage firms are serious about restoring public confidence in the markets, they will have to do better than they did in the pathetic case of Mark C. Hotton.

  • A Harvard Man’s Critique of Affirmative Action

    Stuart Taylor Jr. was in my law school class. Or, more accurately, I was in his law school class, since he graduated at the top of the class and I graduated.

  • Cuomo’s Tappan Zee Plan Seen as Public-Private Model, RPA Says

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to have private companies design and build a new Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River can serve as a cost-saving model, said Alex Marshall of the Regional Plan Association.

  • Mitt Romney and the Water’s Edge of Politics

    Ten years ago, at a panel discussion in Wales, I was asked about a particularly contentious issue of U.S. foreign policy. To the disappointment of my hosts, I responded by apologizing for being a bit old- fashioned about such matters: I was raised to a rather traditional sort of patriotism, and didn’t believe in bashing my country while traveling abroad.

  • China’s Amazing Disappearing Vice President

    What if Mitt Romney disappeared?

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