Lacunae Musing

Hat tip to my former colleague, Jim Wright, who put me on to Steven Malanga’s interesting and well-researched article in the City Journal , ...

Go west young man; that is, go so far west you find the opportunity for employment and pursue the promise of prosperity which is thought to ...

This week’s Barron’s Magazine , the Dow Jones publication that purports to be “America's premier financial weekly “, mentions, as among ...

Perhaps some things are better left alone. For instance, I recently visited the offices where I used to work. The building was brand new in ...

The cash for clunker’s program has been proclaimed a “success” by politicians lining up to take credit, to show their constituents that they...

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

A while ago I was “tagged” by a fellow blogger to name twenty-five writers who “influenced” my life, and although I began my reply by naming...