I don’t watch a ton of TV. LOST, The Wire, Entourage, and occasionally House. But I think starting this year, I’ll have to add another show to the “regular” rotation: Frontline.
It’s on PBS, but is also available online. Think of it as a (very) extended 60 Minutes. So instead of a 20-minute segment, they’ll do […]

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The stock markets for the past 3 weeks has been just fascinating. And by fascinating, I mean quite crazy and on most days, quite painful.
I studied Finance at Rutgers, and we learned a lot about how “efficient” the markets were. How all available and whispered about information is efficiently synthesized by the vast army of […]

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I shudder to even write the words, but I have to wonder if another stock market tech bubble is forming. The last time we were here, at the end of the last/beginning of the current decade, everyone’s cash flowed into tech and telecom because it seemed like a sure thing. Exuberance all around. Today, the […]

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I haven’t written a movie review in more than a decade. I think the last one I did was for the school paper. But I got to see a sneak preview for the movie “The Kingdom” tonight. And since it doesn’t open until the end of September, and there aren’t really any other reviews out […]

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This is the most interesting (and testy) back and forth I’ve seen.

My thoughts” As you can see from this newspaper article, so far I like Obama. I think he did very well in fighting back. The Clinton team has done a masterful job of painting his Pakistan comment as a big Obama blunder and reinforcing […]

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(my original title for this post (until I wrote the very last line of the post and liked it so much I made it the title as well): jason bourne & greatness.)
On Sunday night around 11ish I went to the theater and watched the movie The Bourne Ultimatum. It was awesome. No, it was excellent. […]

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