Author: albert

I read this article in the NY Times just now on China’s $13B trade surplus… for the month of May. I’m frightened to even look up what the US trade deficit was for May 2006. I’m sure it was quite ugly....

I forsake watching baseball in 1994 as an impressionable 14-year-old. I understood that the athletes were actually not making as much as they should be making and that the owners were raking it in hand over fist, but holy shit,...

Has anyone ever receieved a six to seven figure bonus in their lives? How about receiving a six to seven figure bonus if your company fails to turn a profit? How about a six to seven figure bonus that is not allowed by your...

I see from this Washington Post article that the antiterrorism budget for the two cities directly attacked on 9.11.01 [New York City and D.C. for those who’ve forgotten] will be shortchanged $114M from last year’s...

It was a crazy final couple of months and then the really crazy couple of weeks on the campaign trail on the Pennacchio campaign, but I’m alive and now, a week rested, ready to start writing about it. I’ve been...