Category Archives: Notices

I am in beautiful Vancouver Washington to speak at the Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference. My posts will be a bit light until I am back in New York (very late Tuesday, which effectively means Wednesday).

I commented last week on the rising lack of civility and accompanying decline in the quality of comments. I do not know if these are independent developments or not. I cannot control for the latter, but the former is disturbing and serves to drive out good observations. In particular, I find ad hominem attacks particularly […]

I have noticed a deterioration in the quality of comments in the last month or so. While mean spirited, intellectually bankrupt remarks used to be rare, they are now occurring more than occasionally. And the number of ad hominem attacks, both on other readers and post authors, has also increased. Although I am not reading […]

A lot of readers are very unhappy about the bank bailouts, particularly given the lack of any meaningful financial services industry reforms. Kvetching is therapeutic, but productive action is better. I recommend looking at “A New Way Forward“”s website. If its goals appeal to you, I suggest you consider joining the protest scheduled for Saturday […]

A couple of weeks ago, I put up a bleg for a referrals for a lawyer to review my literary agent’s contract (mind you, she already landed a publisher, but since it takes months for the agency to finalize the contract with the publisher, I haven’t yet signed the agent’s contract. I received an overwhelming […]

I will be going to a memorial service and remembrance tomorrow, which will eat up a lot of my day tomorrow, and may also lead me to be light on posts tonight. Apologies in advance. I am hoping readers can give me some help here. I have been asking for months (I am not exaggerating) […]

I’ve gotten a very good response to my request for help with my upcoming book, both for research/sanity check support and (when the project is further along) review of select chapters. For the benefit of those who expressed interest in being on the research team (not to worry, it will not be a cast of […]

Dear readers, I am going to be making some changes to the blog over the next few weeks, and anticipate the result will be a plus, although I know some of you are very resistant to anything new. First, we will be adding some guest bloggers in regular slots, each posting one day a week. […]

I am now en route to Vienna to do a day long private briefing/discussion with a small number of investors and business owners. This should be very interesting and mutually informative, since it looks like a very plugged-in group. Because this is a quick turnaround trip, and I need to deal with jet lag (aka […]

We just finished participating in the taping of the SBS (Special Broadcast System) TV show “Insight” which will air Tuesday October 21st at 7:30 PM. The subject was the role of greed in the financial crisis, which is a hot topic down under. By way of background, SBS is one of five “free to air” […]

Dear readers, Am back from Alaska. Despite part of the trip being a fiasco, I recommend you go if you haven’t already. The people are very nice (it’s one of the few places in the US where communities still matter) and the sights really are spectacular. For instance, in one afternoon I had 68 humpback […]

Dear readers, You may recall my mentioning that I was going to Alaska to view the splendors of Nature and watch the ice melt. That time is upon us. Aside from the fact that it might do me some good to learn how to take a vacation, Internet access is very limited in Alaska if […]

We’ve mentioned we are going to go to Alaska to watch the ice melt. That means no Internet from August 3 to August 10, inclusive, save maybe a visit to an Internet cafe to check e-mail. Those who might want to try their hand at guest blogging (or have an established blog and would cross […]