When did it happen? How? A small gathering in Zuccotti Park? Ten sleeping bags? Or was it Cairo? A different language. Same problem. Even worse. Was it the 2008 Crash? Or the hope of Obama, dashed as the Geithners and Summers swept in after the swearing in? Or was it Reagan sworn in, followed by [...]

In these deeply troubling times we need to now face a hard reality and stop worrying about convincing President Obama of anything. We need to convince his bosses, Goldman Sachs and a few others on Wall Street that what’s good for the Republic is good for them. We need to convince them that Warren Buffet [...]

What has happened in Egypt and is happening in other parts of the Middle East is (of course) profoundly important for that region, but it also brings lessons to the so called First World, struggling with it’s reworking of financial structures (both in Europe and in the US). As we watch Obama (who has increasingly [...]

Why not? Why can’t I ask that? This graceful phrase has rung in my head ever since the dazzling JFK spoke it (I remember he did it with the white-haired poet Robert Frost by his side). Who could argue with those elegiac words? Except, what about those other words? “…a government of the people, by [...]

I completely understood (pretty much) all my friends when they explained to me (around the Wall Street and Banking bailout led by the Goldman Sachs people running the government under the newly elected Obama) that Obama had no choice but to spend those taxpayer’s trillions. They made it clear that it was because the financial [...]

On Monday the important banking CEOs were to attend a Presidential meeting at which it was billed Obama (getting slammed in the polls for his entanglements with Wall Street) would dress them down for their unrepentant behavior since receiving hundreds of billions of taxpayer’s cash. But the biggest CEOs didn’t show up because of “fog [...]

I ‘ve been wanting to write about a number of things over the past few days, but Thanksgiving swept in and I’m just now beginning to see the light of the day after. First, that this Dubai situation is strange — strange how our core financial situation can be so tied to something on the [...]