Crazy-assed architecture and development in Dubai. Lee Seigelman discussed an apartment project that will hold 1 million people. The best design, well the most over-the-top design, is coming out of totalitarian countries.

Looking on the bright side, Michael Lewis writes, "For years now Wall Street has been far too lucrative for a certain kind of energetic and ambitious person to justify anything but the most perfunctory personal life. Now that the market for his services has collapsed, he has time to go home and figure out which of the children roaming around the mansion are actually his."