Gone are echoes of coronation as Democrats brace for a divisive convention. Despite near certainty of clearing the delegate hurdle, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ greatest political weapon: Being the once underestimated candidate. Just eight years ago the once presumptive nominee Clinton scraped together victory after victory well […]
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One Great Question….
Trouble always starts with a great question, and one sparked my book American Mojo: Lost and Found. Just as my last book Becoming China’s Bitch and Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now entered final edits, I was strolling the Bund in Shanghai. Beneath the snapping red flags a young Chinese business man asked […]
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines….
Breathtaking nuclear disaster in Japan, the nation the world has watched struggle with tsunami, then earthquake, then a radioactive cloud of fear, led its leaders to massively intervene. Historians comb through wreckage and political detritus to discern who knew what when. But here is what the Japanese and the world has already figured out. Leaders […]
Portrait of the Artist
Art is juxtaposition. Consider the funny and warm exchanges as George and Laura Bush unveiled their portraits at the White House with the President and Mrs. Obama. Remarks were by turns respectful, warm and on many occasions exceedingly funny–Even some folks less instantly charming than Barack Obama found ways to charm their audience. Respect and […]
C’mon Wall Street, the ref is watching.
Regulators are twitching and investors are itching. So how does Wall Street respond? With two exquisitely badly timed comedies of errors that have the whole world watching and doubting again. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…. JP Morgan’s killer whale and Facebook’s investor defriending constitute one of the […]
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Fox Business Network– The Good Ship Hillary is Listing Left as She Steams Toward California
Gone are echoes of coronation as Democrats brace for a divisive convention. Despite near certainty of clearing the delegate hurdle, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ greatest political weapon: Being the once underestimated candidate. Just eight years ago the once presumptive nominee Clinton scraped together victory after victory well […]
One Great Question….
Trouble always starts with a great question, and one sparked my book American Mojo: Lost and Found. Just as my last book Becoming China’s Bitch and Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now entered final edits, I was strolling the Bund in Shanghai. Beneath the snapping red flags a young Chinese business man asked […]
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines….
Breathtaking nuclear disaster in Japan, the nation the world has watched struggle with tsunami, then earthquake, then a radioactive cloud of fear, led its leaders to massively intervene. Historians comb through wreckage and political detritus to discern who knew what when. But here is what the Japanese and the world has already figured out. Leaders […]
Portrait of the Artist
Art is juxtaposition. Consider the funny and warm exchanges as George and Laura Bush unveiled their portraits at the White House with the President and Mrs. Obama. Remarks were by turns respectful, warm and on many occasions exceedingly funny–Even some folks less instantly charming than Barack Obama found ways to charm their audience. Respect and […]
C’mon Wall Street, the ref is watching.
Regulators are twitching and investors are itching. So how does Wall Street respond? With two exquisitely badly timed comedies of errors that have the whole world watching and doubting again. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…. JP Morgan’s killer whale and Facebook’s investor defriending constitute one of the […]
