I watched Whoopi Goldberg on the View today and my mouth sagged open in shock.

 If a non-celebrity had drugged a child, raped her, sodomized her, skipped sentencing and run away to another country, would Whoopi have said the same thing? 

 If a non-celebrity had ignored that 13 year old… Read full post »

I was leaning on a glass door on 14th St in Manhattan.  It was summer. Outside the window the world went by in flip-flops and bare legs. I had my phone in my hand but I couldn't dial. I couldn't open the door. I was paralysed.

 Ten minutes earlier I had… Read full post »

There’s a lively discussion happening in the comments to Steve Lawson’s article After CDs. What’s Next?. Steve reckons we should be excited about the artistic freedom we’re afforded by abandoning the format of The Album:

You know, I took out a subprime mortgage. I thought I was being really clever at the time too.

 I have an MBA. I ran a small company at the time. I know about money and rates and economies and things like that. At least, I really thought I did. I… Read full post »

Regina, Regina, Regina, this a post for you.

 We have never met. For about 18 months we have spoken once a month, every time I call into your vast office to file my bureaucratic paperwork.  You have a lovely voice and you put a human voice on a fairly degrading and… Read full post »

Don't look now America, but Russia just bought Iceland.

Iceland is the first country-sized victim of the credit crunch - an economy and currency in freefall as  a direct result of the economic crisis. The krona worthless. Inflation out of control. Two banks out of three in receivership.

 It… Read full post »

Although my first career was in Investment Banking, that was a) a long time ago and b) event have moved with such dizzying speed over the last few days that I am having trouble analyzing them. 

 Who do we believe? How do we even assess the implications of all of this?… Read full post »