This small quiet book on leadership deserves to become visible so that its message of quiet leadership can be absorbed into our business and political organizations worldwide. Who are the invisible leaders? How do we make them visible? Back up for a moment: SHOULD we MAKE them visible, or is our understanding of leadership in […]
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Karl Rove selected as Democratic debate questioner
I don’t think this is a problem because Karl Rove has been selceted as the questioner for a series of Democratic candidate debates. Stephanopoulos, in fact, will get on the bandwagon and insist that this happens in order to eliminate the republican talking point
“Playing” at being Presidential vs actually “Presiding”
Is this just a low cost way to appear Presidential and decisive? or part of the narrative of socialist/fascist power-grab using the Alinsky model? If Obama really wanted to look Presidential he would take the NYT defense budget cutting quiz and start to make a difference in our finances by downsizing the military Related articles […]
$2 billion social experiment in central planning fails; it’s after-school for you
Since 1985 Kansas City Mo has spent over $2B on court ordered school “improvements, and now, 26 years later, find themselves rigt back in the same position: losing their accreditation on Sunday. All the students are going to be shipped to other districts. KCMO school system has committed to paying these other districts to do […]
A most excellent resource for doctoral students struggling with their dissertation writing
Focused coaching for a price that’s a real value if you know the dollar value of your time. My personal experience with doctoral writing was that you have to learn how to get out of your own way when it comes to writing. if you listen to the voice of criticism inside your own head, […]
2x every single dollar Penn State football made in the last 25 yrs into a trust fund for victims
it is the height of hypocrisy and worship of the almighty football dollar that the NCAA and new regime at Penn State is allowing a football game to be played tomorrow. Disgusting. Can you even listen to their protestations about restorng their reputation? they should forfeit twice every precious dollar they “earned” in the last […]
Foxes meet henhouse: get rid of Geithner as a start
Kuttner nails it, a classic case of foxes guardung the henhouse, and more evidence of why the banking industry’s influence in the Treasury Department is bad for the nation
weekend report summary, Oct 02, 2011
Market in Bear Normal; Market is Neutral on a short term basis Equities returned to last week’s lows, with volatility remaining in the high end of normal. ; Blended monthly rebalancing, current holdings: 26 ETF portfolio: TLT, TLT, SHY (double scoop of TLT) 13 ETF portfolio: TLT x3 (Triple scoop of TLT) (could also use […]
Forced cuts and Congressional politics
Given the political climate in DC and the cynical, self-serving behavior of both parties which is the predictable downside of an entrenched 2 party system, the following scenario really concerns me: I dont think the Republicans in Congress want to win the Presidential election in 2012, since they know the economy isnt going to heal […]
Robert Higgs on the connection between the private economy and property rights
Jim Rogers echoes these sentiments when he describes his preference for investing in regions with more political stability Here is Higgs on regime uncertainty As I understand regime uncertainty, it has to do with widespread inability to form confident expectations about future private property rights in all of their dimensions. Private property rights specify the property owner’s […]