Well, today is day #2 and it’s been quite the interesting ride so far. It’s hard to be substantive at a public computer (no laptop – don’t ask!) while standing on sore feet between sessions, but this is a random brain dump of some different things I’ll be circling back to in more detail over [ Read More ]
Consider the following: The Soviet-style Economic Model: Profit-driven business cannot be trusted to do what is best for society at large, therefore all business should be owned by the state. State-owned businesses become a monopoly with no incentive to provide exceptional goods or services, or a reasonable rate. Taxpayers get screwed in order to subsidize [ Read More ]
Throughout my career I have held roles with all kinds of titles, but in the end, at my core, I am a project manager. That is how I see myself and how I tend to identify, no matter what my formal title. And it’s for a very, very simple reason: there is one constant in [ Read More ]
I could go on (and on and on and on) about Obama’s victory — about the fact that this type of thing is precisely what kept me in politics for so long, about the fact that this was the most exciting election of our lifetime, about the fact that he’s got a huge undertaking in [ Read More ]
In my recent quest to collect as much information as possible to educate myself about finances and investing (and area in which I am negligently ignorant) I came across a book that has proven to be highly valuable, if not a bit unsettling. It’s “Prince Charming Isn’t Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money” by [ Read More ]