WSJ: “Spies Keep Intelligence From Trump“ [Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.] That’s one way to protect against treason. Namely, keep the President and his inner circle out of the loop, so they can’t betray any...Read More
Crime and (No) Punishment. Still. “President Obama [chose to] save the banks rather than throw all the bankers in jail, which they deserved.” –Thomas Friedman, “Hard Lines, Red Line, and Green Lines“; The NYT (9/23/2012). As unsavory as Richard Nixon’s pardon by Gerald Ford was, you could at least argue two things: 1) it was...Read More
See . . This . . Movie Calling Charles Ferguson’s “Inside Job” a documentary is like calling The Gettysburg Address a speech. Bar none, it is the clearest, most succinct explanation of the Wall Street-engineered financial crash — whose aftermath we are still very much dealing with — that I have seen. More than a...Read More
Damage Control: Advice to Prospective Sellers As Watergate made plain, the cover-up is often worse than the crime (although in Richard Nixon’s case, ordering a burglary was plenty bad in its own right). The same principle applies to selling homes. Here are three examples where covering up a problem is worse than simply leaving it...Read More
