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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Republican lobbyist cleverly salts useful questions with partisan rhetoric
John Feehery, in his CNN opinion piece What’s Driving the U.S. Over a Cliff?, mixes four useful questions with unhelpful partisan rhetoric and misleading statistics that need to be challenged so that we can avoid driving over that cliff. We do need … Continue reading
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Your Refrigerator: a metaphor for the risks of Globalization and cheap money
It’s noon on a sweltering hot day in summer with no air conditioning in your small uptown apartment. Sweat runs down your face and body as you decide to get a cold refreshing beer from your refrigerator. Opening the door, … Continue reading
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We cannot save other nations! We can only generate failed states
My friend Dean was a recovering alcoholic; his family, his Catholic faith and AA had provided the support he needed to keep him on the wagon and lead a happy productive life for 10 years when he shared this: “When I was … Continue reading
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NPR’s Planet Money is well worth a listen!
In addition to Paul Krugman, there are other people out there with a strategic perspective on our economic situation and a capacity to explain it in clear, realistic, interesting, and non-blameful language. I listened to two of them this morning … Continue reading
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Financial tumor metastasizes!
The headline in today’s New York Times reads “Crisis Reshaping Wall St. As Stars Begin to Scatter”. Had I been the headline writer, I would have used “Financial Tumor Metastisizes.” The best and brightest of the financial industry, those who helped … Continue reading
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Management Bottlenecks: primary source of institutional failures
An Admiral in the Pentagon called his staff together and announced: “Somewhere in this office there’s a bottleneck,” a young Lieutenant from the South spoke up: “Suh, in my long association with bottles, I’ve always found the neck to be … Continue reading
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