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The Golden Rule

"€œI believe in the Golden Rule"€”the man with the gold...rules."€ "€”Mr. T Precious-metals expert Ned Naylor-Leyland is an investment manager at Quilter Cheviot, ...

Your Kids Will Not Know What Money Is

"€œYour kids will not know what money is,"€ Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, told U.K. broadsheet The Daily Telegraph in November 2015, predicting that cash itself will disappear ...

Seeing the World Through Third World Eyes

Last night wasn"€™t particularly eventful. We went out to dinner with some guys from work to celebrate Christmas break. The restaurant wasn"€™t very fancy and we spent a ...

Beyond the Zero Bound

"€œWe live in strange times. No Western government gets to stay in power unless they spend more money than they receive."€ "€”Richard Hubbard Last week's column ended upon ...

Nowhereland: The Financial Now?

The announcement was printed with little fanfare. On Feb. 1, 2013, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) exceeded its precrisis high point of $13,903.01, hitting $14,054.49. The ...

Tomorrowstan: New World Order?

You can"€™t miss the signs, despite our leaders"€™ reassuring statements, which would have us believe everything is just fine when it is not. The Fed's too spooked to move on ...

The Anthony Cumia Network: An Apology-Free Zone

"€œRacist Rant Shelves Shock Jock,"€ screamed the front page of New York's Daily News in July of last year. Anthony Cumia was fired from his twenty-year gig with The Opie ...

Secondhand Knowledge

There is no quality more fleeting than modernity and nothing staler than an analysis of a past crisis that was written at the time it was happening. The problem with our present ...

Steve Jobs

Aaron Sorkin: Master of the Middlebrow

Steve Jobs, the superbly theatrical film about the Apple cofounder's turbulent mid-career arc, opened in Los Angeles and New York over the weekend to the best per-theater grosses ...

Cracked Gets Whacked

"€œWho the hell is David Wong?"€ I asked that at my blog back in September 2007. I"€™d just read a pretty impressive essay called "€œ7 Reasons the 21st Century is ...

Flying Off the Handle

I am no great admirer of management as a science or of managers as people. The latter tend to speak a strange language, a jargon neither elegant nor poetic; they buy very dull ...

Emission of Guilt

An old Australian judge of my acquaintance, an art collector and general connoisseur, now dead, alas, had no interest in cars and used to answer inquiries as to what car he ...

Higher Learning at an All-Time Low

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is nipping at Hillary Clinton's two-inch heels in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination based largely upon his higher-education plan. ...

A Tale of Two Suburbs

Two of the better movies of 2015 are weirdly similar musical biopics about bands from Los Angeles"€™ south suburbs. Last June's Love & Mercy profiled Brian Wilson of the ...

Ford Motor Company, 1941

Is Trumpism the New Nationalism?

Since China devalued its currency 3 percent, global markets have gone into a tailspin. Why should this be? After all, 3 percent devaluation in China could be countered by a U.S. ...

Much Ado About ‘Compton’

"€œCan"€™t go to a movie the first week it opens. Why? Because niggers are shooting at the screen."€ "€”Chris Rock, 1997 Still wondering if Marco Rubio should get to sit ...

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