Robinson Cano capped another in a long line of dismal postseasons with a record-setting 0-29 stint at the plate, yet maintained that “I’ve been hitting the ball hard, just right at people. There’s nothing you can do.” Then there was Nick Swisher, who, considering the number of opportunities he’s had in 11 different playoff series, Read More
Wall Street, wounded by President Barack Obama’s anti-Wall Street rhetoric, responded with anti-Obama rhetoric: It’s not a new story, but Chrystia Freeland’s story on Leon Cooperman in The New Yorker today does a nice job of bringing it into focus.
Mr. Cooperman, child of the Bronx, alumnus of Goldman Sachs, founder of the hedge fund Read More
Seventeen very rich families added their names to the list of tycoons who’re the majority of their fortunes to charity via Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates’ Giving Pledge. Good for them! Whatever they did to amass all that money, all is forgiven.
Something went haywire with American capitalism in the 1990′s, and we think we know what it was: There weren’t enough Henry E. Singletons to go around. In truth, there was only one Henry Singleton, and he died in 1999. He could read a book a day and play chess blindfolded. He made pioneering contributions to Read More
One of these days, they’ll be able to say, “I told you so,” but until then the contrarians who read-and write- Grant’s Interest Rate Observer will have to endure the taunts of the bull-market babies.
Generally speaking, Jim Grant, the biweekly newsletter’s editor, has been wrong for years, but he wears wrongness better than anybody. Read More
