OK! Let’s get it straight. Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third. The left fielder is Why, Center Field is Because, the pitcher is Tomorrow and the catcher is Today. Wrap it up with a shortstop named I Don’t Care and you have the makings of a great comedy sketch [...]
Where the hell is all this money coming from? Do you remember when Jay Leno used to pitch Doritos’s? At the end of each commercial he closed with the tag line “Don’t worry, we’ll make more”. It seems to me that the Federal Reserve might be in line for a copyright infringement lawsuit because they [...]
It sucks to be the slowest zebra. But in God’s perfect world of natural selection the swift and healthy zebras survive and procreate while the slow or careless zebras get served with toast points at a lion’s dinner party. The point is that there are winners and losers in these scenarios of survival. Even though [...]
As my old friend Amos used to say “I don’t chew my cabbage twice”. Having recently commented on the AIG bonus fiasco I am not inclined to re-masticate the same topic. But the political response and media coverage has gone from absurd to obscene while remaining silent on the most important piece to this puzzle. [...]
Brace yourself boys and girls for this once in a lifetime headline. BigFrick agrees with President Barack Obama and Congressman Barney Frank, at least in part. The recent admission by AIG that they plan to use part of the huge taxpayer bailout they received to pay $165 million in bonuses to their derivative traders is [...]
It all comes down to who do you trust. Since the completion of last week’s Northern Trust Open golf tournament, newspapers and television media talking heads have been hammering the sponsoring financial institution for allegedly wasting taxpayers’ money on lavish travel expenses, entertainment and accommodations. Story after scurrilous story is disseminated instructing taxpayers on the [...]
Poor management is like feeding chili to your pet cat. No matter how novel the idea seems to be at the onset, there is an overwhelming chance that it will not end well. And it will take a long time to find all the places where the catastrophic results need to be cleaned up. Such [...]
