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Happy Birthday Noah

Today is my son Noah’s 46th birthday. My gift to him and to myself is to write a piece about him and my feelings for him. Noah is my youngest child. He has an older sister, Sarah, who is determined to be the best at everything she does, and usually

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Respect the Streak

Baseball fans love statistics because they tend to make the daily events seem more rational and orderly. We humans crave order and predictability, even when

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The Color of Law

It’s been 150 years since the end of the Civil War and 50 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Act. However we still

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The “What if” Question

I have spent my entire business life identifying price anomalies and taking advantage of them to make money. “Buy low, sell high” is my secular

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Tools of Justice

It’s the American Horatio Alger story. Invent the next Xerox machine and get rich. Or get screwed. Dan Brown was a smart Irish kid from

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