No, I’m not referring to Alexander Lobrano’s book by the same name just yet. But yes, Alec Lobrano does have a 2nd edition of his book coming out soon, and I’ll get to that in a minute. In this Hungry for Paris, I’m referring to David Lebovitz—former Chez Panisse pastry chef, as well as food […]
Archives for March 2014
Putin Should Remember the 1998 Ruble Crisis and the End of Yeltsin
While troops on the ground may not be feasible to counter Vladimir Putin and Russia in Ukraine (nor should that be considered), if the powers that be are bent on retaliating against Russia for breaking international treaties by invading Ukraine, Robert Kimmit and Stephen Myrow (both former Treasury officials) point out that America’s best leverage […]
Dateline Russia: Stocks Down 11% Ruble Falls to All Time Low
Here The Wall Street Journal stipulates that Russia’s soft underbelly is its economic reliance on Europe. But this late in the winter its favored “natural gas diplomacy” won’t have much effect because Ukraine and the other European nations already have enough supplies to get to Spring. Russia’s Micex stock index fell 11% on Monday and […]
How to Make $175,000
Making money and saving money is hard. But if you have some money and some time then you can do some amazing things like compounding your money or what Albert Einstein referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. But compounding can work both ways. Carrying credit card debt at predatory rates month after […]
Merkel Has Opened a Dialouge with Putin
Al Jazeera America reports that neither side in the current Ukraine conflict has a clue about what comes next. Now that the U.S. and Russia are locking diplomatic horns, Germany’s Angela Merkel will play the good cop and attempt to sort all this out without bloodshed. Neither Moscow nor the NATO powers have reckoned with […]
War Hawks Breathing Fire
The war hawks are breathing fire. Pat Buchanan advises Obama to tune them out and offers cogent reasoning here as to why he should. With Vladimir Putin’s dispatch of Russian troops into Crimea, our war hawks are breathing fire. Russophobia is rampant and the op-ed pages are ablaze here. Barack Obama should tune them out, […]
Making Sense of the Ukraine/Russia Standoff
Here the Wall Street Journal details the back and forth between the U.S. and the EU on one side and the Yanukovych administration on the other in attempting to bring Ukraine closer to the EU and the West. Strategically, the Obama administration decided to take a back seat to Europe because of concerns that assuming […]
Thought You Might Want to Know About This
Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida has a different take on education. Here’s a bit of Full Sail’s story: More than 30 years ago, Full Sail began as a dream to create a place where people could learn how to take their passion for entertainment and turn it into a career they loved. It […]
Bullied, Burdened & Jerked Around
Americans are drowning in a sea of debt, paper work, rules and regulations. Yet voters continue to send to Washington a class of political elites with no experience to lead and no desire to stop America’s tsunami-like spending. According to Gallup, 72% of Americans are of the view that big government is a more of […]
Understanding the Ukraine
Here, the former Ambassador to the Soviet Union/Russia under the Reagan and Bush administrations, Jack Matlock details his thoughts on the situation in the Ukraine. With all of the reports coming out of Ukraine, Moscow, Washington, and European capitals, the mutual accusations, the knee-jerk speculation, and—not least—the hysterical language of some observers, bordering on the […]
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