Politics
First, because I'm a stickler for "full disclosure", I confess that I'm writing this post wearing pink sneakers and a tutu. The Republicans have decided that in April 2021, after a year in which a half a million Americans have died horrible deaths separated
Wall Street
Wall Street Seen as Casino for Rich Insiders. The Only Real Solution Is To Breakup the Banks. Enough already! Enough with celebrity SPACs, exploding ETFs, and kamikaze Reddit hordes. Enough of high frequency trading and dark pools. Enough of brokers selling retail order flow. Enough please God of carbon spewing
Uncategorized
Since the old white men who run Georgia decided that the Peach State should take a leading role in the establishment of the New Jim Crow South by passing legislation whose objective is to make it harder for Blacks to vote, attention has turned to the large American corporations who
Politics
Today's Republican Party is a handy new feature on American Carnage which will serve as an educational service for country club Republicans and other conservatives who still believe they are members of a party that stands for lifting up all Americans (and are still deluded that Trump did
Humor
The financial press is twittering (like birds, not social media addicts) about a leaked report prepared by a group of 13 first-year analysts in Goldman Sach's vaunted training program which showed they worked an "average" of 98 hours each week and only get 5 hours
Criminal Justice
I never spent much time dealing with or even thinking about BlackRock. As an endowment CIO, Godzilla-sized index managers are the opposite of the type we would ever consider. Sure, we used some of their ETFs but I never got to know any of their people or take a
China
An angry exchange of words with China was most undiplomatic but entirely necessary. There's been much hand-wringing by US establishment foreign policy commentators about the unseemly public spat between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Yang Jiechi, his counterpart from China, at the first high level
Criminal Justice
Anti-Asian hate crimes have risen sharply over the last year, thanks in large part to Trump and the MAGA Neanderthals (their permanent new name). Trump and the Republican chumps who ape him have implied, over and over again, the disgusting slander that the coronavirus didn't just originate
Big Tech
The Atlantic is my favorite magazine. Can you tell? The piece below (in this pillar of high quality journalism) targets the idiot obsessions of guys with too much money blowing it on rocket ships to Mars. Yes, what SpaceX is doing in terms of making satellite launches and trips to
Criminal Justice
Apollo -- not the Greek god of music and poetry who resides on Mount Olympus, the other one, the one who is a Wall Street god of greed and decadence -- is busy attempting to clean up it's permanently stained beyond any hope of repair reputation. Apollo is a massively
Humor
This article in the Atlantic reviews the now commonly accepted idea that every human being has their own "style" of learning. Some absorb information and ideas better from reading, some from hearing, some from visual presentations (some from daydreaming, some from hip hop, some from vaping, etc.). Well.
COVID-19
In the Spring of 2020, when US air travel came to an abrupt halt, airline CEOs launched a big lie campaign of Trumpian dimensions. They falsely equated “saving employee jobs” with “saving shareholders”.