You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out – and what we are witnessing at some of our largest financial institutions is an ugly sight." – Warren Buffett Sent from my iPhone – pardon typos
From an email I got from my sister: Spirituality is a direct measure of how much joy we experience in our lives…It is not how much we pray, meditate, prostrate ourselves; it is in direct connection to how much joy we give to others that surround us, and how much joy we experience ourselves." – [...]
I just learned from Daniel Sachs about this think tank – the Glasshouse Forum – to encourage serious thinking towards a more enlightened version of capitalism, one that reflects on the dangers of rampant consumerism (same which we can now witness more clearly with the current financial crisis, not to mention related environmental consequences from [...]
In a watershed development, Syria recently condemned radical Islamists as responsible for a terrorist act in Damascus. And Pakistanis are increasingly rejecting Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden (as opposed to a regrettable situation where a significant portion of that population was empathetic in the past). Across the Arab world and Muslim society, more and more [...]
Earlier today at a rally when John McCain asked, "Who is Barack Obama?", a supporter shouted back, "Terrorist." And at a rally led by Sarah Palin, when she mischaracterized a New York Times story as pointing to an alliance between Obama and Bill Ayers, someone screamed "Kill him." Neither McCain nor Palin have actually advocated [...]
From San Antonio Express News on the business of peace: Yvan Cournoyer, business development manager for H-E-B, said the South Texas grocer had known of Kind bars for some time and began selling them in select stores in 2002. “The bar became more prominent in the energy bar segment,” Cournoyer said. “Last year, it was [...]
Robert Frank provides an elegantly simple explanation of the individual and collective behaviors & motivations that cause asset bubbles, and the means to prevent them. October 5, 2008 Economic View Pursuit of an Edge, in Steroids or Stocks By ROBERT H. FRANK ASSET bubbles like the one that caused the current economic crisis have long [...]
I find NYTimes columnist Frank Rich to be very insightful except for his obsessive Democratic bias. It makes many of his stories predictably partisan, reflexively anti-Republican. That said, this one contains some particularly interesting comments about the campaign. October 5, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain By FRANK RICH SARAH PALIN’S post-Couric/Fey comeback at [...]
Ben Stein has a good article pointing out the dangers of following Treasury Secretary Paulson’s unfettered lead in bailing out his former employees and peers. September 28, 2008 Everybody’s Business In Financial Food Chains, Little Guys Can’t Win By BEN STEIN IMAGINE, if you will, that a man who had much to do with creating [...]