Thursday, September 4, 2014

Very sad. I met Joan Rivers last April at the Plaza Hotel. She was warm and very gracious to me. RIP Joan Rivers. I was a big fan.


Monday, July 21, 2014

Change in US Economic Growth

The US government has tracked the change in the size of our economy every quarter for the last 67 years (i.e., 268 quarters). The country’s quarterly economic growth has been “as bad as or worse than” a drop of 2.9% only 18 times in the 268 quarters (7% of the time), including the data from 6/25/14 that reported a 2.9% decline during the 1st Q 2014. Assuming that the US is not currently in a recession, then the latest... keep going

Monday, July 14, 2014

Sunni militant group takeover

When US forces removed Saddam Hussein (Sunni) from power in 2003, the resulting Iraqi government put the rival Shiites in power. Although Sunnis make up 80% of the Muslims in the world, they are a minority in Iraq. The Sunni militant group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria) is conducting a murderous... read more.