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It’s Thanksgiving, But . . .
24 November 10 • Comments Off

Goofy bets, though, are not the exclusive province of Wall Street.
Nor is Lady Gaga the only one who can wear a meat dress. Check out this video from the Czech Republic
Do Things Really Go Better With Coke?
15 November 10 • 1 comment

At $35.36 million, do things really go better with Coke?
Carly Fiorina and Barbara Boxer, Think We Care Whether You Approved Your Campaign Ads?
23 October 10 • 3 comments

It seems to me our elected officials fall into one of four categories: 1) Wall Street money; 2) Hollywood money; 3) hi-tech money; and 4) personalities that don’t need money or want to make it with a tell-all book deal. Isn’t there a candidate in Delaware who once professed to be a witch?
The Giving Pledge: What Do We Want From the Wealthy?
18 August 10 • 4 comments
I’ve been thinking about the “Giving Pledge,” a campaign championed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. They’re asking fellow members of the uber rich to pledge 50+ percent of their fortunes to charities—more money to philanthropy and less to family. Among the billionaires who have taken the “pledge” are Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Monaghan, Oprah Winfrey, George Soros and other members from the who’s who of wealth.
These pledges are extraordinary acts of generosity.
But how will the Giving Pledge address our country’s greatest needs?
Remember When $426 Million Was Real Money?
4 August 10 • Comments Off

I’m here editing The Gods of Greenwich and thinking about 2008, which is the year my story takes place. So in the current theme of light summer reading on Acrimoney, here is a snippet from Chapter Thirty-Five. The paragraph is based on something that really happened the day Lehman Brothers failed, September 15, 2008.
Beach Reading without Congressional Oversight
3 August 10 • Comments Off

There’s plenty to discuss from the headlines these days. But this summer I’ve been buried with edits to my next novel, The Gods of Greenwich. And I’m staring at a few deadlines now. With this post, however, I’d like to take you back to the summer of 2007. It was a time before Bernie Madoff confessed, before AIG lost $99 billion in one year and before banker bonuses had everybody in a lather. Now two members of Congress occupy our attention, elected officials who sit in judgment even with their hands in the cookie jar (allegedly).
Like I said. We’re going back three years to the summer of 2007. Here’s the first chapter of Top Producer, which will be out in paperback on December 28. If you stop back tomorrow or Thursday, I’ll post Chapter Two.