‘Leave it to the Chinese to secure the White House, the US Capitol, most US Airports and international borders.’ That headline on an eTurboNews.com release on Feb. 1 grabbed my…
Trawling the news feeds, I often find two articles in the same publication that, without referring to each other, tie together a much larger story than either tells.…
Few books read once in adolescence made as permanent an impression on me as Frank Norris’s novel, The Octopus: A Story of California (1901). Wheat farmers squeezed into…
Former Walloomsac Inn, Bennington, Vt. 4/2011 They say we should beware of people who buy ink by the barrel, usually meaning journalists and media barons. But there are other owner-operators…
The Oct. 18 New Yorker has an excellent essay on Adam Smith by Adam Gopnik (behind subscription wall.) Nominally, it is a favorable review of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life…
Two days after drafting my post on Jeffrey Immelt’s observations on American industry, I read Tim Duy’s superb post on the loss of manufacturing jobs. (Thanks for leading me to…
FT.com has reported provocative remarks made in Rome last week by General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to a group of Italian executives. The whole article deserves reading, but I want…