For people who listen to NPR outside of the New York market, I'll be on Weekend America tomorrow with New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff and "Ask a Mexican" columnist Gustavo Arellano, discussing Obama's plans for Pakistan, higher health insurance premiums for fat people and why people have sex. Station listings are here.

The September issue of Fast Company is on newsstands now and I have a back-page column on Alan Greenspan's famous inscrutability and the parts of his legacy we'll probably remember the most decades from now: the slow bleed housing market collapse, the proliferation of dangerous alternatives to traditional fixed-rate mortgage lending products, etc.. The column also takes issue with the public's willingness to read innumerable baseless facts into Greenspan's general statements. (It's not that Greenspan isn't smart; it's that the public is dumb--particularly when it comes to economics.)

The Hollow Man [Fast Company]

The New Republic Online asked me to review Portfolio's second issue (after reading my panning of the first one). The verdict: the second issue isn't much of an improvement on the first. But this time I made a prescriptive recommendation: I suggested that the magazine could do with a leadership change at the top. My recommendation for a replacement candidate?

Tina Brown.

Seriously. You can read why here.

The Perils of Portfolio: Distressed Asset [TNR.com]