The death of Osama  bin Laden, like his life, was a noisy affair. Throughout the world, the media finally had something really big to report, because after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the meltdowns at Fukushima and the ongoing "Arab spring," now brought to us from Libya and Syria, consu/… Read full post »

Nicolas Hayek died the way he probably wanted to, enjoying his daily leisure time at his desk in Biel. He was a grand entrepreneur in a class of his own. If anything came close to the art of business, it was what he did, and like all great artists, whatever he… Read full post »

 Frankfurt is much more than just banks and Joe "Peanuts" Ackermann, of course.

The Frankfurt Book Fair is on and somewhat underreported by the MSM, even though it is one of the world's biggest trade fair for books. This year, over 401,000 items were on display, down some from… Read full post »

The reaction to Obama winning the Nobel Prize for Peace at the end of the week came as quite a surprise on an otherwise banal news day of business, banks, bombs and bloodshed. And it raised the usual storms of pro and con with sharp crosswinds of bloviation… Read full post »

  The distinct sense of glee felt in some of the more vociferous conservative circles at Obama’s journey to Copenhagen to promote Chicago as an Olympic city must have come as a pleasant surprise to the president and his advisers. Just as a cat, once it has caught sight of a moving… Read full post »

A few days ago, Roger Cohen at the New York Times wrote a column entitled “The Miracle of Dullness” regarding the upcoming elections in Germany. It said more about the author  than the country he was writing about. Cohen begins by describing how his plane thumps down pl/… Read full post »