Substack Library
GlossaryA Woman’s World
July 25, 2021There is nothing more natural than having babies. Sitting at a desk in a public library, I watched about 30 of the next generation wobble uncertainly on the grass, shaded by tall trees. “You put your left foot out…,” they sang, a young parents’ group from the look of it or, more accurately, mostly a young mother’s group since there was just one man.
Our Stock Market Addiction
July 18, 2021Dude, everyone is doing it, just re-register your company as an C-Corp and put out the call for money. In this environment, why not?
A Covid Hangover
July 4, 2021When I was an adult, I asked my father––a tall, lean man with a shock of white hair–– how he invested money when I was a kid. His answer was simple: he didn’t. In part, this was probably because the markets didn’t interest him. In part, I suspect this was because he grew up during the Great Depression. For him, stocks losing 90% of their value wasn’t an aberration, it was life.
A Father’s Role in Thwarting Crime
June 20, 2021Many winters ago, New England sunk under snow, passing a Russian speaking family up a hill, all of us on cross-country skis, them perhaps not realizing I understood them. I’d put their boy at 5 or 6.
Deflationary Locusts
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Biden’s Big Bet
May 5, 2021Regarding the plan, when Biden said Xi and Putin believe democracy can’t “compete in the 21st century” that rang true to me. My mind flashed back to a conversation I had had years before in an elegant Beijing restaurant. My interlocutor was a financially savvy Chinese acquaintance who had earned an advanced degree in the US, worked in New York for a period and then returned home. He was bald, wore a stylish black blazer and had a thoughtful manner. This was years before Trump and George Floyd.