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Richard Shinder

Richard Shinder

Richard J. Shinder is a financial services executive in New York.
by | Feb 8, 2022

I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?  – Beck, “Loser,” 1994  Bite my lip and close my…

by | Dec 11, 2021

Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the bankruptcy of Enron, which at the time was the largest chapter 11…

by | Aug 14, 2021

As Democratic congressional leaders advance their $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package, shopworn tropes have been dutifully trotted out to support…

by | May 17, 2021

A curious phenomenon has begun to emerge in the wake of the CDC’s recent updated guidance on mask-wearing related to…

by | May 1, 2021

The arts have rarely been kind to commercial activity, and visual media are no exception. Businesspeople are typically depicted as…

by | Mar 30, 2021

In an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal last week, Phil Gramm and John Early made a convincing, fact-supported case that, contrary…

by | Feb 2, 2021

As a long-time financial services executive, every so often I am called upon by friends and family from other walks…

by | Dec 7, 2020

On March 12 of this year, I wrote for these pages a piece entitled “China and the Coronavirus — A…

by | Dec 5, 2020

Occasionally a business story, particularly when salacious, presents an opportunity for deeper reflection upon our commercial culture beyond the scope…

by | Jul 17, 2020

It is sufficiently obvious as to not require detailed explanation that in the modern era, movements for change require intellectuals,…

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