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Showing posts with label Warren Buffet. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Warren Buffet. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2009

Stimulus Stew

The state of the economy, it's safe to say, is iffy at best but, less than six months after its passage, the market for badmouthing the ...

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Spitzer as AIG Culprit

When a commission probes the economic meltdown, Michael Lewis' Vanity Fair piece "The Man Who Crashed the World" will serve a...

Monday, March 02, 2009

The Melting of American Wealth

How did we get so poor so fast? Under the radar of stimulus bills and bailouts, economists are toting up the damage and super-investors like...

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Warren Buffet Shows the Way

While Chris Dodd et al in Congress arm-wrestle with Henry Paulson on how to invest taxpayer money to rescue the financial system, the 78-yea...

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Barbarians at the Gray Lady's Gates

The year has not started well for the New York Times . While taking fire for the John McCain story, its family ownership is under siege fro...

Saturday, November 17, 2007

All the Money You Could Want

Most of us go through life wishing for more money but are never faced with deciding what to do with endless amounts. A news story today sugg...

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ROBERT STEIN: editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.

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