Atlas Spinning
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Investment Banker and writer Richard Murff on money, the markets and how they make the world go round.
Latest Blog Posts
- A Thanksgiving To Forget on Nov 25, 2009
Note the conspicuous absence of a naked Squanto.Get one myth out of your head right now – that the pilgrims ever had a happy gathering around the table. With anyone, least of all the Indians. For the pilgrims, even something as innocuous as a Wedne...
- What's That Cloud Lined With? on Nov 20, 2009
Indian girl, seen here with traditional bling/401(k)The Pakistani looked at me over the jewelry case the last time the price of gold broke the $1,000 per once mark. “Yes, gold is at $1,000.” he said, “But that is because Mr. Bhutto was blown up...
- Admitting You Have A Problem Is The First Step on Nov 17, 2009
There there, it's only for a little while.Government regulators, investors and speculators watched the CIT Group go into bankruptcy with the collective resigned shrug as we watched Paris Hilton get dragged off to detention a few years ago. It may not...
- Regarding The Father Land and a Further Land on Nov 13, 2009
Let freedom and blue jeans reign.Freak show rocker Iggy Pop moved to Berlin because, he said, New York wasn’t decadent enough. So perhaps it wasn’t the mere cry of freedom that sent the waves of East Berliners across the wall twenty years ago. Ma...
- Why Should the Healthcare Debate Be So Painful? on Nov 10, 2009
Thomas Jefferson, Defender of Freedom, hard to tell what his stance on ACORN would have been.I happened to be standing in Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson on Saturday while the House of Representatives were setting themselves to p...
- Room 101? Down The Hall And To The Left. on Nov 4, 2009
Big Brother, seen here watching you google "Boobtropolis." May tell the wife...hasn't decided.American’s have developed a strangely bi-polar vision of huge American corporations. Oceans of ink have been spilt on the evils of Wall Street and derange...
- Beware The Hand That Saves You on Oct 29, 2009
Pandemic? Well it's one louder than an epidemic....iddn't it?According to the doctors, the swine flu is as highly contagious, fairly mild disease. Unless you were vaccinated 35 years ago with President Ford, or last week, none of us has a natural imm...
