NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT!  Does anyone recall the great sports writer and social commentator, Jimmy Cannon?  What a writer – when I was a teenager I devoured his newspaper columns here in New York, and they were in part an...

Summer 1929 – the warning signs were there and the smart money (think of investor Joseph Kennedy, father of the brothers John, Bobby and Teddy and the legendary Bernard Baruch, advisor to presidents) were moving to cash and off...

This on-line journal is titled “Accountability Matters,” and we note (above) that “accountability really does matter” to all of us. So, too “Politics Matters,” says CNN senior commentator and well-known author David Gergen. We...

It’s taken years to get here, but in just a few months, the Summer Olympic Games 2008 will open in China. This “XXIS Olympiad” will be a pageant of nations with a stirring opening ceremony – and the spirit of the games...

Another troubling story about a company with a clear lack of accountability and sense of corporate responsibility, and a situation with minimal government oversight, this time from the food business. A whopping 143 million...

This is a sad day for the US government, and sadder still for all of us as taxpayers. Taxpayers who have paid for greed, screwups, and general indeptitude by parties who have access to our tax dollars.

The world is continuing to shrink and become a village. "Red Hugo" (as Institutional Investor magazine characterized him four years ago in a cover story) was and is a threat to democracy and capitalism -- thus putting him and the...

For years after WW II the American Dollar was the currency of choice around the world -- in little Costa Rica the dollar is still welcomed by cab drivers and hotel bellhops and merhants. But for how long...as the dollar continues...

Commentary on Corporate Governance, Investing and Political Accountability. Watch this trend closely -- could be a freight train pounding through Corporate America in proxy season 2008 and beyond. ("Last year, a Mason-Dixon...

We've said it here in this space before -- keep your eye on Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in New York State. Politically attuned, focused, risk-taker (taking on bigger opponents), experienced (he ran HUD in the Clinton era and...