Of the business visionaries of the 20th century, none was greater than Meyer Lansky (1902-83). Crime writer and poker expert, James McManus, described him a decade ago in…
‘Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco: Treat Yourself to the Best’. Across the western Appalachians, that motto appeared on barns close to well-traveled roads. One side would get a…
American Airlines’ maintenance fiascos and PR embarrassments have provoked a lot of comment – little of it more than whinging. But now comes a very wise post on…
Singer-songwriter John Prine turned 66 today, Oct. 10. ‘Happy Birthday!’ to one of the best there is. I was surprised when WUMB’s Perry Persoff saluted Prine this…
‘Words of Wisdom’ from Peter D. Kinder Co-Founder, KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. Copyright © 2012 by Peter D. Kinder. All rights reserved. First Affirmative Financial Network Conference on Sustainable,…
No matter how familiar the Shoah has become, no matter how it recedes into the past, it retains the capacity to surprise, to horrify anew. The title of Daniel Goldhagen’s…
My mother raised four sons (and their friends and dogs and rabbits…) in a rambling, wreck of a house in a small town with plenty of woods and fields surrounding…
US 23 runs flat and straight through large farms between Marion and Toledo, Ohio. When farmers fertilised fields with a winter’s hog manure, a young driver had 90 miles to…
Few things damn fiduciaries more than failing to ask obvious questions.When given their statements, advisors with money at Bernie Madoff’s firm should have asked for the bona fides of Friehling…
A New York Times op ed by Rebecca Harrington on the Harvard cheating affair quotes William James, one of the founders of psychology as a discipline. In a letter to…
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