On Monday, Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio wrote a well read article on Twitter and LinkedIn titled “Money, Civil and International War, Minneapolis, and Beyond – In Perspective”. In that article, Dalio argued that we are in the process of moving…
The S&P closed Thursday only a few points shy of a new All Time High. With Futures currently in positive territory, it appears the market will make another run at it Friday. While everyone loves a bull market, there are…
If you want to see American culture in its rawest form try working out at 24 Hour Fitness in the middle of the night. I’m back in the Bay Area for a few days trying to satellite into the $3500…
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt – Juvenal, Roman poet The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with…
I was born on April 4, 1977 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, CA. My parents – Robert and Diane – were the first generation children of Jewish mother immigrants from Europe. My grandmother on my father’s side, Ethel, came…
In a previous blog, I defined the culture of nihilism as follows: We live in what I have come to term “the culture of nihilism”. It is a culture characterized by self absorption, selfishness, lack of concern for others, incivility,…
On any given day, Elon Musk might be the hero or the villain. Call it the duality of Musk – part of the reason he confounds both supporters and critics alike with achievements that amaze and comments that appall. –…
We live in what I have come to term “the culture of nihilism”. It is a culture characterized by self absorption, selfishness, lack of concern for others, incivility, rudeness and nastiness. Nietzsche prophesied it almost 150 years ago and his…
This evening I was straddling two lanes at a red light as I had pulled out from a gas station at an intersection without enough space to get cleanly into the left lane. Apparently the driver behind me was incensed…
Man does not live by bread alone – Matthew 4:4 The Bible says that man does live by bread alone. The cultural commentator Michael Novak once amended this as follows: Man does live by bread alone – but he needs…