During the 2024 election campaign, those scratching for a reason to support Donald Trump said they wanted someone with business experience who could make the government more efficient.  Why they would hold that hope for a man who filed six bankruptcies is a mystery. Nonetheless, thei

After the 2008 financial crisis in the United State —  the result of Wall Street bundling bad mortgages together and selling them as investments — writer Michael Lewis wrote, The Big Short, a best seller about what happened.  Primarily, he focused on the few canny invest

Depending upon what surveys you read, a majority of women voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but not by a wide margin. (Click)  Thirty-nine percent went for her opponent, a certifiable  misogynist. One woman explained she was uncomfortable with her support

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One wonders how Theater of the Absurd writers, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter or Bertolt Brecht would have treated Sergey Aleynikov’s life story. Aleynikov is a brilliant computer code writer who was arrested, not once, but twice based on complaints filed by his former employer, Gold

On June 9 of this year, the writer Michael Lewis gave the commencement speech at Princeton, his alma mater. In it he made an observation about luck that went viral on the web. Life’s outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. The truth of his st