Eric Salzman

Fire Departments' New Emergency: Affording Their Trucks Three companies have come to dominate the fire apparatus industry, putting the screws to our towns and cities. When I was a kid, one of the coolest things was that every year, a few days before Chris... See more

Life in the Fast Lane With Robinhood Markets At least in a real casino you get some free drinks and maybe a free suite if you lose enough By just about any metric it has been a blowout year for the retail brokerage company Robinhood Markets. The company’s... See more

Time to Pump the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence Finance? Big Tech needs trillions to fund their AI dream, much of it from insurance companies and pension funds. What could possibly go wrong? Artificial Intelligence dealmaking has surged in 2025 and loo... See more

Is it Happening All Over Again? Lax risk management, an incurious Federal Reserve, credit rating agency shopping, greed and garden-variety stupidity. Welcome to what could be the next great financial crisis. Perhaps the quote that will define the next Gre... See more

The Best Presidential Pardon a Stablecoin Can Buy Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Was it a quid pro quo? Presidential pardons are almost always controversial. Sometimes they are shrouded in mystery, like President Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon o... See more