Income inequality in the United States is recognized as a worsening significant issue. At a recent meeting of the Columbia University Alumni Association (held in the austere richness of Boston’s Algonquin Club), Economics Professor Sunil Gulati, and politically liberal chief investment … Continue reading
Category Archives: I’ve Been Thinking
What is the pedestrian supposed to do when the entrance to that pedestrian’s office building is festooned with signs that say “Beware of Falling Ice”? Speaking of our snow here in Boston: if you save the parking space you dug … Continue reading
What about those radio ads for hospitals that say they focus on the human being and his comfort, that you were a human being before being a patient? Next they say the most important thing is to get the best … Continue reading
The Economist, that esteemed publication which is attached to a research and consulting business called the “Economist Intelligence Unit,” annually lists in order the best and worst cities of size in which to live. The results are somewhat predictable — … Continue reading
The app “A Word A Day” noted recently that Stellenbosch as a verb means to be demoted to a useless job without loss of rank. Comes from the town of the same name in South Africa, which today is wonderful, … Continue reading
Why US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice was forced out of consideration for Secretary of State based on her conveying incorrect information given her by the administration about a matter that was trivial and highly politicized. Why people are … Continue reading
When New Orleans found itself under water a couple of years ago, the legal community jumped forward to fulfill its social obligations by providing help of all kinds to the distressed New Orleans community. Lawyers labored nobly and long to … Continue reading
Jobs is the mantra of this Presidential election. What creates jobs? I do not know. There is likely an answer but each party has its own, and the electorate is ill-educated to judge. I suggest that our own personal analysis is fundamentally … Continue reading
There is an old joke that if you have two Jews you will have three opinions. Former US Congressman and New York Mayor Ed Koch this weekend added, “And also four different temples.” This joke is not a joke but … Continue reading
Now that we are finished with both rather conventional and predictable Conventions, the “race” for the Presidency begins in earnest. The seeming fragmentation of the body politic into discrete and intensely focused “voting blocs” which are fought over between the … Continue reading