On Wednesday, the same day it was reported that H. Ross Perot lost a bundle in a real-estate assets hedge fund now absent its assets and funds, Stephen J. Dubner put out the call: Who's got questions for Ross Perot? The co-author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, who also co-authors a spin-off blog for The New York Times, conducted a similar survey for a Ron Paul chitchat last week and promises to post the Dallas billionaire's answers shortly, soon as h
Bryan Burrough was in town earlier this week to sell a few copies of his must-read tome The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. Been looking forward to the book ever since September, matter of fact, when Vanity Fair excerpted a chapter that made mention of H.L. Hunt strolling through downtown Dallas in 1948. You can read another excerpt on Tina Brown's Daily Beast, where Burrough has also posted a piece titled "The Death of Texas Power," in which he insists that "the
