Month: March 2009

Famous American economist, John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 – 2006), said: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” Wonder what Galbraith would have said about our current financial crisis? Or did he predict it with the following statement:… Continue reading According to Galbraith.

By Joseph L. Galloway McClatchy Newspapers For the better part of 60 years, two old Army pilots who loved each other argued over many a meal and drink as to which of them was the second best pilot in the world. The two shared the cockpits of old Beaver prop planes and Huey helicopters; they… Continue reading Too Tall To Fly – Farewell to an American Hero

Refinancing Many homeowners pay their mortgages on time but are not able to refinance to take advantage of today’s lower mortgage rates perhaps due to a decrease in the value of their home. Modification Many homeowners are struggling to make their monthly mortgage payments perhaps because their interest rate has increased or they have less… Continue reading Learn About Making Home Affordable.

Spooky how today’s economic crisis parallels so much of the happenings leading up to the Great Depression. The political element is particularly interesting and somewhat frightening as the public reaction in Germany greatly helped Hitler come to power. Here is the link to a facinating broad description of the Great Depression: http://tinyurl.com/4d6rc

The main difference between http:// and https:// is that it’s all about security HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transport Protocol which is just a fancy way of saying it’s a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking) for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients. The important thing is… Continue reading The Difference Between HTTP and HTTPS

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20090306/bs_bw/0911b4123026586146 Excerpts below: Another critical factor is the health of the banking system. One measure to watch is banks’ so-called net worth, or the difference between how much they owe and the value of their assets. Rebuilding the banking system’s net worth will be monumentally difficult. “On average, this process takes about six years,” says… Continue reading Stock Markets: When Will the Bull Return? By David Henry

List of ASA Memoirs and Novels in Wikipedia article on the Army Security Agency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Security_Agency #1 Code Break Boy: Communications Intelligence in the Korean War (memoir) by John Milmore (2002). ASA in Korea. C Trick: Sort of a Memoir (memoir) by Don Cooper (2000). An ASA German linguist in Berlin in the mid-1960s. Dress Rehearsals:… Continue reading Tooting My Own Horn – My Novel Listed in Wikipedia.

– Tamar Frankel, a professor at Boston University School of Law, is author of “Trust and Honesty, America’s Business Culture at a Crossroad.” The views expressed are her own. – The debate over corporate executive bonus payments should be put in perspective. Some say that the executives did not earn these bonuses and don’t deserve… Continue reading Executive bonuses: heads you lose, tails I gain