December 28, 2008 Madoff Madness: If It’s Too Good To Be True…
If it’s too good to be true…maybe it isn’t. Part of the wholesale abandonment of risk management in the current financial environment is ignoring of risk, either clearly evident risk or what should be have a healthy sense of...
December 27, 2008 Big 3 Auto Industry Bailout Drama Continues
What the 110th US Congress could not or would not do in its last days, the good old Bush White House, in its own dwindling away and winding-down days, got done. Two of America’s remaining Big 3 auto companies will get almost $14...
December 23, 2008 Yankee Money and City Money and Taxpayer Money and Fan Money…
Great ball stadiums bring great hopes to the civic interests, and the home teams playing are good, great hope for the loyal fans. Baseball is the great American pastime. (So is football, basketball, hockey, etc. – privately...
December 12, 2008 Detroit Big 3 Rescue Fails In Congress – Now It’s Up To The White House … Or Are The Bankruptcy Courts The Next Stop? Exactly Who In The Federal Government Is Accountable To The American People?
As CNN anchor Lou Dobbs seems to ask (night after night) – “What in the world is going on with our government?” Many more people of ordinary means as well as those in high places of power are now asking the same question. As we...
December 08, 2008 The American Heartland – World Class Manufacturing Center? Or Deserted And Abandoned Resource Lost To The Nation’s Future?
For generations of American workers and business managers, the Heartland states – western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and others – have been the epicenter of American manufacturing know-how. This was the...
December 02, 2008 Part II: Two Tragic Incidents – What Do They Tell Us ..About Our Society …About Ourselves? And Who Is Accountable For …This? The Wal-Mart Debacle – A Worker’s Death In Shopping Melee
Part II – As we wrote yesterday, in our next of the woods, here in suburban Long Island, New York, two recent tragic incidents have shocked newspaper readers and TV watchers, whether they live in these parts, elsewhere in the...
December 01, 2008 PART I: TWO TRAGIC INCIDENTS – WHAT DO THEY TELL US ..ABOUT OUR SOCIETY …ABOUT OURSELVES? AND WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR …THIS?
In our neck of the woods, here in suburban Long Island, New York, two recent tragic incidents have shocked newspaper readers and TV watchers, whether they live in these parts, elsewhere in the country…or in some distant place on...
November 26, 2008 AND THE BEAT GOES ON – MORE RESCUE MONEY WHEN AND WHERE AND HOW DOES THIS END?
The Hon. Everett McKinley Dirksen was a gravely voiced, avuncular US Senator from Illinois (he served 1951-1969) who helped to pass the Open Housing Act of 1968, a powerful piece of the Civil Rights legislation. We long remember...
November 20, 2008 GOING OUT OF USA SEA PORTS – WHAT? AND INTO THE USA PORTS…WHAT?
You can tell a lot about a nation by its trading activities, and what goes on at the international seaports where cargo ships of all kinds come and go – the important ports of call of a nation. Take the United States; today,...
November 19, 2008 MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: TAKE IT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, LEVEL WITH THEM -- THEY CAN TAKE IT!
Take it to the People, Mr. President. That’s my unsolicited advice for our new president, who takes office January 20, 2009. Considering the complex issues that our new leader will face after he leaves the Capitol steps and the...