Michael Lewis has written several great books about various marketplaces. Two standouts are Moneyball and The Big Short. These books extol…
Year: 2014
Robert Levy, of auctioneer Hilco Industrial, and I had a leisurely dinner after the blockbuster auction he and Myron Bowling…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday will announce one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States…
This coming Sunday I’m competing in an amateur salsa dancing contest. Unfortunately the suede bottoms on my special dance shoes…
It’s Memorial Day 2014 as I write this piece, and for most people it’s a day of barbecues and softball…
If President Obama approves the hot-button Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada has plenty of work to do to build the Montana-to-Nebraska…
I am hardly a horse racing buff, but the story of California Chrome, winner of this year’s Kentucky Derby and…
On Wednesday, a week after a train loaded with crude oil from North Dakotaexploded in downtown Lynchburg, Va., dumping 30,000…
What a day I had yesterday. My wife Risa and I went down to the Sears (Willis) Tower in Chicago…
Yesterday, a physician friend of mine explained to me the economics of doctoring while his medical technician was removing wax…