#1,000

You are reading the one-thousandth column I’ve published on “Adam Smith, Esq.” since launching the site at the very end of 2003.Who knew?The credit, of course, goes entirely to you, Dear Readers, for the warmth, generosity, and consistent insights...

For the Record

A minor kerfuffle seems to be brewing about disclosure (which is, to us securities lawyers, God) by online citizen journalists about products/services they endorse.  When the topic hits The New York Times you know it’s official, and the FTC has also posted...

Manhattan 1609/2009

In about two months (September 12) it will be exactly 400 years since Henry Hudson first “rode the flood tide up a great estuarine river on the North American continent looking for a passage to Oriental riches.”  Put in more familiar terms, they...