There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio…

by | Jul 22, 2010 | Stories

…than are dreamt of in your philosophy. W.Shakespeare – Hamlet I am far more Horatio than Hamlet, but my faith in the basic rationality of my world has been shaken this evening. The story: We are spending the week at my parents’ cabin in Alpine,...

Quote/Unquote

by | Jul 3, 2010 | Money

…the only regulation that will ever work is failure… Businesses should fail, that’s the way the system was designed. Rick Santelli in an interview on King World News Two years ago, Congress had a chance to keep the economy from tanking. All they had...

Summer Reading

by | Jul 3, 2010 | Reviews

I have devoured Nassim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. The ideas contained in these two books are profound, disturbing and very, very liberating. For some reason, these books occasionally get labeled as “Business” or...