Lacunae Musing

A couple of days ago, my friend Bruce and I were exchanging some brief emails regarding Salinger, not for any particular reason other than w...

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 ...

Yesterday’s Palm Beach Post carried an outstanding editorial, putting Obama’s first year into perspective, and I sent a letter to the edito...

…the more they stay the same. It’s as if we did a Rip Van Winkle during the past six months, awakening to the Sturm und Drang of the banker...

I left the Aegean Adventure post in the middle of our trip, with a promise to cover our remaining days in the Greek Islands, Dubrovnik, and,...

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

If you read only forecast for 2010, let it be this one by James Howard Kunstler who writes a blog, Clusterfuck Nation . While I hope things ...