Lacunae Musing

Finally, I can sit at my keyboard with minimal pain from surgery.   Also, my head is clearer than when I wrote my last entry. This ...

It’s our usual time for what I call the vacation (being on our boat in Connecticut) from the vacation (being retired and living in Flor...

It is more than embarrassing. It could be politically devastating, the Obama administration caught in the cross hairs of political posturin...

I try to set aside Sunday mornings for catching up on some newspaper reading and to watch political shows such as Meet the Press , keeping m...

The similarities between the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the ongoing nuclear Fukushima Daiichi crisis in Japan are strik...

The last entry fondly described our summer home, a boat. One of the motivations for having this “home” is to leave Florida during the hot, h...

When I watched President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office Tuesday night, my expectations where heightened for a President finally laying ...

It is Memorial Day weekend, one of profound sadness, for the service men and women who gave their lives for our country, and now what seems ...

Here’s some positive news from or about people who can help point us in the right direction. First there was the big news that Paul Volcker ...

Two interesting articles, one an interview with Richard Koo, a former economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now chief econ...

Bailouts, bonuses and Madoff. Are we getting tired yet of the endless litany of related headlines such as the Wall Street Journal ’s recent ...