Last month, the Beloved and I watched the film Margin Call. It was a dramatized take on the events at a prominent Wall Street financial firm (they should have disguised the name as Breeman Lothers) as the home mortgage based crash of 2008 began to unravel around them. It was a good, albeit depressing, film.…
I’ve been under the weather today, so I’ve had some time to think on things while I lie around on the couch and occasionally check the internets for interesting and distracting things. And the thing that I’ve been thinking about today is money. No, not how I can get more of it so that I…
During my recent trip to Germany, I found myself missing a few guys that I don’t think of that often – George, Abe, Alex and Andy*. That’s right, good old US Legal Tender. I don’t think of them that much here, because I am mostly a credit-card guy. Like those incredibly annoying Visa commercials, I…
Stevil 