My Last Pry

I'm a man without a corporation. ~Paddy Chayefsky

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Another State

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The economic hammering is creating cracks everywhere I look. What's happening is frightful; I just got through speaking with my cousin ...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Fish Bite

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I'm an admirer of Professor Stanley Fish's, and have to post this. It speaks to the way huge corporations now dominate our lives wi...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Skillz

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Let's take a break from all of the doom and gloom, shall we...? My first taste of ballin' magic was the Globetrotters, of course;...
Friday, December 26, 2008

Harold Pinter

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The late, great Harold Pinter just passed. I have mixed feelings about England, and I daresay most of them bad. But when they produce peop...
Friday, December 19, 2008

"I think we have our story, ” said Jim Grant.

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But he couldn’t figure out exactly how the rating agencies justified turning BBB loans into AAA-rated bonds. Okay, enough playtime, back to ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Gran Torino, Seven Pounds

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One of the things helping to distract us lately is going to screenings. Because of the Oscars and the holiday season, Fish and I have been ...

Why Michael Porter is a Dinosaur

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A few years ago I got my first taste of the vaunted Harvard econ brainio Michael Porter whose big wheelhouse is "strategy." He re...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Funny. Sad, but Funny.

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There're hustlers and then there're Hustlers. The small time dudes sometimes crack me up for their ingenuity and entrepreneurship....
Monday, December 15, 2008

The Fix

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When it rains it pours. By now everyone knows about Madoff's ponzi scheme gone bust, but calling it the biggest theft in history ignor...
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