March 5, 2014
The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; – William Butler […]
February 5, 2014
Most ‘Medieval’ In days of old when knights were bold and ladies most beholden straw seemed like silk and water, milk and silver almost golden Not […]
July 6, 2013
The Tipping Point I’ve spun a few yarns in recent years about my days as a naval officer; not, thank goodness, tales told by dead men, […]
June 6, 2013
Wounded Heart Joseph Schumpeter, the originator of the phrase “creative destruction; authored a less well-known corollary at some point in the 1930s. “Profit; he wrote, “is […]
April 6, 2013
A Man in the Mirror I’m starting with the man in the mirror I’m asking him to change his waysAnd no message could have been any […]
February 6, 2013
Credit Supernova! They say that time is money.* What they don’t say is that money may be running out of time. There may be a natural […]
January 6, 2013
Money for Nothin’ Writing Checks for Free It was Milton Friedman, not Ben Bernanke, who first made reference to dropping money from helicopters in order to […]
October 8, 2012
Damages I have an amnesia of sorts. I remember almost nothing of my distant past – a condition which at the brink of my 69th year […]
February 8, 2012
Life–and Death Proposition Where do we go when we die?We go back to where we came from And where was that?I don’t know, I can’t remember– […]