Bankers and economists are not your friends, and never have been; they are in the business of making money, and the expertise they bring to that job does not include doing what is right for you, but rather, what is right for the bank, and by extension, for them personally. That is the lesson that I learned from Inside Job, … Read More
The High Cost of Disaster
The recent and ongoing events in Japan, the third wealthiest country in the world (after the U.S and China), are familiarly tragic; it is only weeks ago that we woke to similar headlines from New Zealand, slightly more than a year since disaster struck Haiti, five and a half years since New Orleans sank under the winds and waters of … Read More