As everybody in the consulting business in this town knows, never schedule consecutive meetings with an Israeli and an Arab. You always need to leave sufficient time between them so that they don’t run into each other outside your building, in the elevator or in your reception area. And that’s under normal circumstances; this week, it has… Continue reading Netocalypse – the Great IP Address Mess
Category: Economics and Finance
The Future Just Isn’t What it Used to Be
My father’s older brother, Edward, never changed his last name back to Martini like my father did. As a matter of fact, when Dad resigned his position as an engineer at General Dynamics and left the Connecticut suburbs for Little Italy in Manhattan and a job tending a bar at the Stuyvesant New Amsterdam Hotel… Continue reading The Future Just Isn’t What it Used to Be
Quantitative Queasiness
My younger brother Rob Roy, his wife Katje and my nephew Jason dropped by my office this afternoon. After my final consultation of the day, we all went out to an early repast at Morton’s, followed by a performance of Hair at the Kennedy Center. Word has it that audience members wearing sufficiently authentic 1960’s… Continue reading Quantitative Queasiness
How Can 500 Million Bozos be Wrong? Right?
It was only a matter of time, really. Congress finally got around to sending a few pointed questions to Facebook. The next step in that time-honored minuet, of course, is a subpoena. Hey, it’s happened to a lot of people considerably more intelligent, more creative, more insightful, more honest and much, much, much more useful… Continue reading How Can 500 Million Bozos be Wrong? Right?
The Palm Beach Hillbilly Runs for Senate
When Gretchen came in to open up this morning, there was McMurray, waiting outside the door for her to open it. He followed her in and immediately asked to see me as soon as possible. Given my schedule today, unfortunately, poor McMurray had to hang out in the reception area with Gretchen until a quarter… Continue reading The Palm Beach Hillbilly Runs for Senate