Kirk Walters comments on the 30th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, which, he contends, harshes the buzz created by the Dow going over 23,000.I covered the 1987 crash, but it was only a blip and hardly a warning. A few adjustments to automated trading software and off we went again.The Dow Jones Average […]
(Ann Telnaes, 2016)(Pat Oliphant, 2012)For the past week, I’ve been sitting on an article in the Columbia Journalism Review by Ann Telnaes on the topic of Pat Oliphant in part because I didn’t want to just toss it in with other things and in part because it wouldn’t simply slip into place like the final […]
“Noone is trying to kill you,” Clevinger said.”Then why are they shooting at me?” Yossarian asked.”They’re shooting at everyone,” Clevinger answered. “They’re trying to kill everyone.””And what difference does that make?”It’s good to have both sides upset over revelations of selective IRS scrutiny and of the collection of telephone data from the phones of Associated […]