You know what is coming as well as I do, so I won’t belabor the point. Maybe it is a recovery and maybe it ain’t. Remember, this is mostly a psychological drill, at least for Wall Street. If you feel good, you act good. I am as tired of the continuing crisis as I am […]

I am about ready for a dose of irrational exuberance, al la the quote from the evil gnome Alan Greenspan about the housing bubble years ago. I wish I could find a gig like that- utter a sphinxlike line in the morning, and then take off for a long lunch and a longer weekend. Alan […]

It was one of those mornings; no reason for traffic to be horrific, but it was, anyway. Pulling out of the garage under Big Pink I spied the traffic backed up on Route 50 East in front of the building. Since it is almost a mile to the first of the two lights that slow […]

02 March 2011 (Irish Poet William Butler Yeats.) Slouching Toward Bethlehem Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all […]

(1957 Ford Skyliner, dropping the top in front of the Glass House, Dearborn, Michigan. Photo courtesy FoMoCo.) “Beware the Ides of March. The bastards are at it again.” – Punk Playwright Bill Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 2, from Julie-the-Caesar I had not quite forgotten why I was in the office. I had decided it was […]