Photo: John Thain, CEO of Merrill Lynch In one of the most tone deaf and arrogant moves of all time, Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain went to the board of directors and demanded that he receive his $10 million bonus. In this environment? Unbelieveable. What makes it even more disgraceful is that John Thain was […]
Greg Maddux retired yesterday with 355 wins, four Cy Young and 17 consecutive seasons with at least 15 wins. He did his job, treated those around him with respect and went back to his anonymous life. How athletes treat the game and those around it matters to me as a fan. Some players just don’t […]
Alice Schroeder has scored one of the most coveted assignments in financial journalism, writing the first authorized biography of the world’s greatest investor and one of its richest men, Warren Buffett. This is an incredible score, especially considering Schroeder is not a journalist but a noted insurance industry analyst and former managing director at Morgan […]
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Even on the 67th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, FDR’s legacy is still being hotly debated. Another president whose administration was defined by their response to an attack on the homeland, President Bush, is in his final days and giving “exit interviews” to the likes of ABC’s Charlie Gibson. What is his legacy as he leaves […]
Dick and Christine Moody founded Operation Troop Support in 2003 in order to serve deployed men and women in uniform from across the country. This weekend, Operation Troop Support put the Post Office in overdrive, sending an astounding 25,000 individually wrapped Christmas presents to the troops deployed overseas. That is amazing. You learn more about […]
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From the always excellent Crossing Wall Street, Total Democratic Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,407,082 Total Republican Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,297,123 Total Third-Party Presidential Votes Since 1932: 66,061,486 How’s that for parity? That’s a difference of 109,959 votes out of over 1.5 billion cast.
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Just in case you are still under the delusion that the Global Warming Climate Change Fanatics are all about the environment, comes this nugget from the UN. U.N. says poor nations need $130B for climate change EVERY YEAR POZNAN, Poland (AP) — The U.N. climate change organization has said the world’s poor countries will need […]