The US Attorney in Oklahoma City should take the easy approach to prosecuting SemGroup… just round up a bunch of Okies and explain that the nice folks at SemGroup are responsible for the price of gasoline…and they are backed by rich “hedge fund” guys back east… it would be an “indian massacre”… Oklahomans can be […]
Thank goodness he is back… the poison pen of the IB world… the Epicurean Dealmaker… a memorable quote…
~~~~ ” … Normally, or when times are good and the money is flowing, the political situation among top management of an investment bank resembles a logjam, or the Western Front: lots of strains and pressures under the […]
I saw Werner Herzog’s movie about the scientific community at the south pole, Encounters at the End of the Earth yesterday…
Herzog is German and he is described like this in Wikipedia ~~~~ “…His films often feature heroes with impossible dreams or people with unique talents in obscure fields….” ~~~~
This documentary movie encompasses both elements of […]
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The New York Times reviews the beautiful show , Muraqqa, at the Sackler Gallery… ~~~~ “Formal and informal portraiture, naturalism, spirituality, worldly extravagance and history are condensed into images no bigger than a notebook…” ~~~~
Upcoming show at the Sackler… “Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur”…
*** “Akbar Fights with Raja Man Singh,” from a copy […]
Happy 90th birthday to Nelson Mandela … he didn’t write the following quote but is said to have used it… I think it entirely encapsulates his example to us…
“Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that […]
Flowing Data asked readers if they thought that the famous Minard visual (1869) of Napolean’s retreat from Moscow was the best graphic ever… lots of good comments… from the blog…
~~~~ “…. Further I think the idea that graphics can only say one thing is really restrictive, that rules out almost all visualisation that’s used for […]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is dominant in our area… this was his birthplace and he loved this area… at his national historic site they put inspirational quotes of his on the marque… one may not agree with his overarching philosophies but the sheer optimism of the man is amazing…
Winston Churchill described him like this… “Meeting Franklin Roosevelt […]
Every Sunday in church I walk by a plaque given in honor of Levi Morton by his daughters… Morton was our twenty-second vice president of the United States… I have had only the vaguest idea of who he was and what he accomplished… he was a Republican (bien…)
Some posts from the Real Time Economics blog in the WSJ…
~~~~ “Do a little examination and ask yourself, ‘What do you think the housing market in the U.S. would look like without the GSEs now?”‘ Richard Syron, Freddie’s chairman and chief executive, said earlier this year.
OK Dick, let’s do it.
No sprawling suburbia with commuters spewing […]
Classic music for a summer Sunday… Jai Uttal’s “Monkey”…
