Lacunae Musing

  It’s a multilayered apocalyptic confection, suitable for a world addicted to dystopian hedonism.    Irreconcilable political ideologies,...

An attention-grabbing article is in the March 26th The New Yorker: "Replay; As he faced an ailing economy, what could Obama have done ...

Two stories today. This first one is from the New York Times Timeless Lincoln Memento Is Revealed describes the very careful opening of th...

Maybe it is merely a coincidence that directly or indirectly through professional musicians I recently received emails with the text of Karl...

“I looked at my 401K and it’s now a 201K ba-dum-bum-CHING !" So, the joke goes today, but, don’t look now, it’s a 177K based on the S...

I was watching some of the House Financial Services Committee’s hearings yesterday with the chief executives of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chas...

It’s been called “draconian” by compensation “experts,” the same ones that are employed by the financial services industry – a proposed cap ...

In an effort to try to understand the more than $8 trillion guarantee our government has made to bailout our financial mess, I tried to asse...

Tom Friedman made this observation but here’s some more documentation from the New York Times : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/business/1...

Here are two must read entries recently posted by a fellow blogger, someone I’ve mentioned before. As Mark states in his mission statement:...

Those are the famous words that have been used to explain any stock market anomaly. They were used in the dot.com era as the NASDAQ approach...

Here is one way to define the concept. Lead our country to the brink of economic disaster. Have the very administration which brought us t...

On that unspeakable day of September 11, 2001 we were in Connecticut, packing for an overseas trip. While the horror unfolded we could see ...

The downgrade of AMBAC’s financial-strength rating, and the possibility of downgrades of other bond insurers, including MBIA, could be the b...