I have a review of Peter Bernstein and Annalyn Swan's All the Money in the World--How the Fortune 500 Make--And Spend--Their Fortunes in today's Observer. You can read it here. (The verdict: meh. It's not horrible, but if you must, wait for the paperback.)

My September Fast Company column, which I wrote in late July, blaming Alan Greenspan for the subprime meltdown is online now. (It has been for a couple of weeks.)

I mention because I just got an email indicating that a certain big-budget-business-mag-that-shall-not-be-named is doing their primary October feature on ... the same subject. The title: "HIS FAULT: Blame Greenspan for the Credit Bubble." I guess it's a validation of sorts. (Or maybe we're both horribly wrong! MUAhahahaha!)

I'll be on Weekend America tomorrow with Simpsons writer Dana Gould and the indefatigable Christopher Hitchens, talking about Putin's new bomb, troop reductions, carbon emissions and naked carpentry.

Local listings here.

My Fast Company column for October is out now. The subject: Apple and Steve Jobs--the latter of whom just got subpeonaed yesterday, but I didn't talk about backdating because I think Jobs is pretty much in the clear on that one. Instead I talked about why I keep buying Apple products even though they consistently fall apart on me well before their ostensible expiration dates:

And yet I keep buying Apple products. I could blame myself for continuing this sort of irrational behavior, which is particularly irresponsible when you consider that a computer is a professional necessity. I need it to do important things such as adding an aquarium with little pixelated fish to my Facebook profile and sending fake David Hasselhoff sightings to Gawker.com. But I don't blame myself, because that would be unpleasant. So I blame Steve Jobs, who has seduced me into buying his sleek machines, even if their delicate organs seem to fail with alarming regularity, like the beautiful consumptive heroines in Victorian novels. Steve...is the human incarnation of the average Apple product: He's good-looking, he overpromises, and he's notoriously temperamental.

The Tao of Steve [Fast Company]