September 11, 2001 was a defining day of my life. My office was on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan, a couple of blocks from the World Trade Center. To get home that day, I had to walk through the dust & rubble of downtown. I remember it vividly. That day New Yorkers in every neighborhood came down in…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
Editor’s Note: An avid reader of this Blog brought this issue to our attention. This reader also informed us that letters to the NYT editors had been ignored. Below we give our opinions about the book in question, its review published by the New York Times and the selectivity practiced by the NYT in publishing this review. Our approach…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
We heard Robert Albertson, Chief Strategist at Sandler O’Neill, make this comment to CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo in December 2009. We were struck by the simplicity of the statement at that time. We were reminded of it as we heard President Obama announce his plan of imposing a tax on America’s largest Banks for profiteering and…
Editor’s Note: The story below was sent to us from an avid reader of this Blog. It made us smile. An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the UN assembly that made the world community smile. A representative from India began: “Before beginning my speech, I want to tell you something about Rushi…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
It is a maxim of ours that lack of education leads to ignorance and ignorance leads to cultural supremacism, a dangerous form of religious prejudice and racism. We find this in many comments from America’s writers on Afghanistan and its largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns. These writers can only acknowledge the history of the region from the…
Editor’s Note: We are indebted to Mr. Raj Mundhe for bringing this story to our attention. Mr. Mundhe, an avid reader and an old friend, is a noted financial advisor in the Metro Boston area.The NYC Next Idea contest, sponsored by The Economic Development Corporation, is one of Mayor Bloomberg’s initiatives to improve New York City’s image as…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this…