Although every year April brings the start of baseball season and tax season, this year the two events seem more commingled than coincidental. In New York, two new taxpayer-subsidized stadiums are opening. One, the home of the New York Mets, is Citi Field, Citicorp having bought the naming rights back before the crash, when its …
Ginny and I took a ride out to Oyster Bay New York this morning to visit Sagamore Hill, the home of Theodore Roosevelt, his wife Edith and the six Roosevelt children. A beautiful estate, although hardly ostentatious by the standards of his day, let alone ours. I enjoyed seeing his house, although there were waaaaaay …
I’ve never been much for looking back, but the deaths of my dad and of Jack Grady last summer have made me a bit more respectful of the need to acknowledge the people who’ve been important in my life. Last Friday (April 3), I went back to LaSalle (a College when I was there, now …
This morning The New York Post appears with an unbelievable cover story-literally unbelievable. Headlined (at least online) as “AXED GALS TAKE POLE POSITIONS: Pros Stripping Amid Wall St. $lump”, the article by Anka Radakovich (one time sex columnist for Details magazine) reports “Scores of professional New York women stripped of their six-figure jobs are now …
Last week I went to a screening of Steve Solderbergh‘s new film The Girlfriend Experience, an interestingly made film about a not very interesting Manhattan call girl. Today, I received an email from, I presume, a publicist for the film: Good morning – below is a note to you from Steven Soderbergh about the 3/18 …
Whatever else anybody says, the real reason why nobody at Treasury pulled the plug on the AIG bonuses is simple: nobody thought the sums were truly outrageous or that the practice was completely outside the norm. Sometime over the last ten days, of course, everyone became a virgin again and proclaimed shock at the amount …
In his fascinating new book Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed pulls off the rare accomplishment of looking into a lost world and finding lessons for our own. Lords of Finance focuses on the central bankers who oversaw the economies of the world’s four most important powers in the days …
In case you missed it, Jon Stewart‘s merciless evisceration of Wall Street and CNBC on The Daily Show was a sight to behold. Someone could have stopped this fight in around the fifth minute, but I’m glad they didn’t.
The question of the day is: is Barack Obama as cool and as shrewd as Jurgen Prochnow? Or, to be more precise, as Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the character Prochnow played in the 1982 German submarine classic Das Boot. Escaping from Allied destroyers, the captain took his submarine lower and lower into the sea. As they …
True story–I’m in the car this morning, the radio is playing `Breakfast with the Beatles.’ The host has a special guest: Donald Trump. Host says, `Donald, what is you favorite Beatles song?” And Donald says, “Well, I have many, but I always liked `Eleanor Rigby.”’