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- Editor's Note: The Vacation Issue
As you may have figured out, this newsletter is written around the end of the second week of each month, and proofed near the end of the third, so that we can meet our publication deadline....keep reading
- America: The Excellence of Science
In last month's issue, I quoted extensively from (and strongly recommended that you read in its entirety) Joseph Joffe's essay "The Default Power: The False Prophecy of America's Decline" in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs....keep reading
- Resources April 2010
- You'll enjoy reading Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road ...
- Time magazine's "10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years" issue leads with a piece ...
- The Economist would be more than worth subscribing to if it contained nothing ...
- Also in The Economist, in the "Science and Technology" section of the ...
- My son Mark, who learns by Googling everything, came up with the Wikipedia ...
- Ask Nick January 2006
Q: I recently had a client who's been with me since 2000 -- substantially all in ...
A: (1) He just got tired of being brave. (2) He just got tired of you being brave......keep reading
- Squibs July 2008
Gregg Easterbrook...keep reading
- Squibs April 2004
Squibs...keep reading
- May Day: A Plea for Perspective
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." - Winston Churchill speaking at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri March 5, 1946 Almost a decade and a half before his "Iron Curtain" speech, Winston Churchill -- virtually alone among world statesmen -- foresaw the disaster that the rise of Nazism would surely wreak upon Europe....keep reading
- The "R" Word
As a measure of how utterly debased and stupid the rhetoric about the alleged imminence of a recession has been of late, nothing compares to a comment mined from an AP wire "story" that appeared in mid-January....keep reading
- Resources December 2008
- I can't doubt that many of you are already reading it, but by all means treat ...
- Also in the must-read category is Charles Ellis's massive The Partnership: The ...
- Demonstrating Once Again That Even A Stopped Watch Is Right Twice a Day
I'll probably never get any nearer to impending market events than I did in last month's "The Easy Part May Be Over." When and if I ever do, though, be assured that it will be at least equally fortuitous--nay, as purely accidental....keep reading
- Waddya Read?
A tale of two parentheticals
The two sentences below appear (in parentheses) in two columns in the May 14 issue of Fortune magazine....keep reading
- The Blame Game: 2002 Edition
The Spitzer investigation is a curious exercise. It doesn't clarify history so much as distort it....keep reading
- Squibs August 2003
Squibs...keep reading
- Resources October 2003
Resources...keep reading
- Resources March 2002
Resources...keep reading
- Not So Fast
Of all the delicious ironies spawned by the bubble and crash, my personal favorite has always been the fact that Berkshire Hathaway, the ultimate value stock, made its own private bear-market low on exactly the day in early 2000 that Nasdaq made its all-time high....keep reading
- Not-terribly-creative destruction
The headline on the July 12 New York Post was "No Shame;" below it was a big picture of erstwhile Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski's $25 million yacht pulling into Nantucket....keep reading
- Resources April 2003
Resources...keep reading
- Squibs July 2003
Squibs...keep reading
- The Fourth Quarter Head Fake
Unmasked
It's always nice to get instant gratification, even if one insists that one is too evolved to need it....keep reading
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