My last column in this space (July 16) began with sports writer and social commentator Jimmy Cannon’s famous [column] phrase, “Nobody Asked Me, But…” So who was this guy, Jimmy Cannon, my younger colleagues asked? And ... [more]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
NOBODY ASKED ME – BUT! COMMENTARY ON SCARY HEADLINES THAT POINT TO LACK OF BIG LEAGUE LEADERSHIP IN MANY OF AMERICA’S POWER CENTERS…
NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT! Does anyone recall the great sports writer and social commentator, Jimmy Cannon? What a writer – when I was a teenager I devoured his newspaper columns here in New York, and they were in part an inspira... [more]
COMMENTARY ON BANK FAILURE: THERE WENT INDYMAC – FDIC STEPS IN – WHERE ARE WE GOING WITH FANNIE AND FREDDIE – AND WHO KNOWS WHO ELSE WILL BE IN THE RESCUE LINE?
Summer 1929 – the warning signs were there and the smart money (think of investor Joseph Kennedy, father of the brothers John, Bobby and Teddy and the legendary Bernard Baruch, advisor to presidents) were moving to cash and off ... [more]
COMMENTARY ON DICK GRASSO’S PAY PACKAGE – AND EVERYONE MOVING ON … THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE — THE HOUSE THAT DICK BUILT — ALREADY HAS MOVED ON!
The stuff of Legends: The High Drama in the Canyons of Lower Manhattan seems to be coming to an end – the New York State Appellate Court ruled 3-to-1 this week that Richard Grasso, former high-wattage Chairman and CEO of the N... [more]
