What with Monday and Tuesday wiped off my calendar by the Inauguration, I’ve been working late all week. It was after six when I completed my final consultation. Then the phone rang. It was Timothy Geithner. Tom: Good evening, Mr. Secretary-designate. This is Tom Collins. How may I help you? Geithner: Please, call me Tim.… Continue reading New Secretary Endures a Taxing Interview
Category: Economics and Finance
Bush to History: Don’t Misunderestimate Me
I like a nice bagel with smoked salmon once in a while, but it’s getting harder and harder to find wild caught Nova Scotia smoked salmon these days, and Nova salmon’s the best and wild caught fish is the only fish I will buy. If I want to consume the flesh of an animal that’s… Continue reading Bush to History: Don’t Misunderestimate Me
French Post Card Industry on Verge of Cancellation
As Fate and my appointment schedule would have it, I was sufficiently close by the Willard Hotel around lunch time, and after dining had about an hour to kill at the Round Robin Bar. There I spied Phil McCrakin, principal lobbyist for the Association of American Pornographers. Well, how about that, I thought to myself… Continue reading French Post Card Industry on Verge of Cancellation
The Grinch Who Stole $50,000,000,000.00
That Wall Street fella has quite a lot: Nine cars, six houses, and a great big yacht – Designer clothes and all that rot, He’s plumb lost track of all the stuff he’s got. Go beg in the street and live in a shack, You ain’t ever gonna get your money back. Go barefoot wearin’… Continue reading The Grinch Who Stole $50,000,000,000.00
Rock-a-Bye Recession
Today, I drove over to Fairfax and did my part as a good Catholic, attending the confirmation of a pair of twins. They were my sisters’s brother’s wife’s children, and no, I’m not their godfather, that honor fell to my sister’s husband’s brother’s wife’s brother, an Irish police detective from Chicago. All of my sister’s… Continue reading Rock-a-Bye Recession