Partying Campaigning Like It’s 1999 1899* Maybe 25th U.S. President William McKinley had it right:  forget the ennui and tedium of modern political campaigns — the years-long scrounging for campaign cash; repetitive debates; blathery “Town Halls”; etc. Instead, candidates should steal a page from McKinley’s playbook:  campaign from their front porch. A virtual, 21st-century porch. 19th...Read More

Perils of Gargantuan Banks Not persuaded by my myriad argument(s) on these pages for breaking up Too Big to Fail (“TBTF”) banks?  See, “Drug Dealers vs. Bankers:  Top Ten Differences”; “Number of the Week:  $600 Trillion”; “THAT’S Returning to the Private Sector?!?“; “The Scorpion and the Tortoise Defense“; “Who Pardoned Wall Street?”;  “A Financial Gettysburg Address“;...Read More