Being President of the United States used to be the dream of kids when I was young. Lots of kids tossed President out there in papers, to teachers, and it was a mentioned dream job of enough boys to make the idea cool. I imagine that a boy with a...
Day: June 19, 2019
SF Oakland Bay Bridge is Falling Down-My Fair Lady
As we struggle with the truth facing local governments in the face of tax revenue shortfalls and the elements of insanity that the expansion of all government expenses has created over the past 20 years, it seems that the infrastructure that Governor Schwarzenegger has spoken about is collapsing. The Bay...
Happy Halloween
This morning I decided to begin creation of a scripted documentary on the house edge in the capital markets. It just appears that investment banking types and the support persons, as well as the hedge fund managers are creating inordinate amounts of wealth for themselves at the expense of investors....
Pensions? No, those are bad, too.
If you picked a job 26 years ago based on the idea that someday you’d retire to warm sunshine and easy trade-winds, you’re in for a difficult surprise. Like a first time marathon runner that relied on the last 7 miles being flat and easy, coming up on a sign that...