Part II Last week I wrote about my memorable-albeit-disagreeable encounter with one Daniel C. Leghorn in Bemelman's bar at New York's Carlyle hotel. It was there where, fortified ...
Much ink has been spilled scapegoating the various newfangled nerdy types known as "quants" for the financial apocalypse. As a journeyman member of the breed, I"m ...
Part I Following my recent tour of the Petropavlovsk gold project in Eastern Russia, I opted to return home by a somewhat circuitous route, spending two days in Haida Gwaii, off ...
Looking back on it now, "lunacy" is the word that springs most readily to mind. It was Easter 1967. I was just sixteen and had signed up to go on a school trip to Russia ...
"I wouldn"t like to go to prison," said Gimlet. "The idea is a very unpleasant one." I had to agree with him. "The conditions are bleak and dispiriting, ...
"Look at the size of those women!" exclaimed Gimlet as four enormous ladies waddled past the window. "They ought to be ashamed of themselves. You would never have seen ...
In times such as these, people everywhere are seeking investment advice. Even my dentist was quizzing me on alternatives the last time I was in. In a broad sense, there is ...
Beyond Benalmadena on Spain's famous Costa del Sol lies the town of Fuengirola. It is a sprawling commercial nightmare of a place, a tentacle of the once beautiful Torremolinos, ...
When the Right wants to antagonize the Obamaniancs, they draw a picture of Batman's Joker with the word Socialist below it. This makes the Left particularly incredulous because ...
Among the mega-forces moving the tectonic plates and imperiling the nation-states of the world from above and below are these: First, ethno-nationalism, which threatens nations ...
I certainly don"t know much about investing, but I can give you one solid tip: don"t bet in the movie box office futures market. Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald ...
Would it surprise you to hear that the New York Times has managed an economics fail? Again? No, I suppose it probably wouldn’t but you will at least be interested in finding ...
While Bush and McCain were “abandoning free-market principles to save the free-market system” by signing off on an $800 billion Wall Street Bailout, the Republican ...
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