Jeremy Clark is the new Manager of Lancaster Memorial Hospital. He addressed the Lancaster Rotary Club as Joe Johnson’s program. Jeremy is new to the Dallas area having spent his life in the SE United States. He listed five new initiatives at the Hospital including New obstetrics unit-50 babies delivered in June Emergency Room Waiting…

The Democrat candidates all say that taxes are too low on the rich, rich being arbitrarily defined at an income of $200 K.  Well let’s go to socialist Nirvana Norway  and see what they think! The fast growing economies are in East Europe and Ireland where there is a flat tax.  Wales and Macedonia are…

Take a look at Broken China in the latest Business Week. While some things like building for the Olympics seem to get done, others like regulating out of control IP violators, rudderless stock exchanges, and tainted food are not getting done.  Gee could a communist central control appartus not be the answer?  Both China and…

I have had a lot to say about the emergence of the importance of Design as a discipline.  One sign that I am right is the growing popularity of this trend in the immediate culture.  Well, tune in to Design Star.    HG TV has ten folks competing for the best design. The winner gets…

Do you know the acronym BRIC?  That would be Brazil, Russia, India, and China-coined by the new CEO of Goldman.  Check out the world in this somewhat lengthy report from Fortune . The stock market measured by the Dow Jone Industrials broke out big time to the upside yesterday.  Semi conductors and basic materials are…

I heard Roger Staubach speak at a securities meeting. It was clear that he would have been successful even if he had never picked up a football.  Here is Roger’s Story   Yes there are lots of athletes but most fail to transfer their sports success to a practical side of business.  There are I think…

I have suggested that the plot of my forthcoming international thriller will involve a plot todethrone the US through  currency manipulation. Well the reality of that is being reported in Forbes.   This may be a non fiction novel before I can get a publisher on the phone. Oil transactions have been settled in dollars.   One…

Check out this George Will article  on one Senator’s attempt to reform taxes. Amid all the talk about Live Earth, carbon offsets, ethanol, and fences, does this have a chance?  Probably not, too realistic. As I have remarked the field is wide open for someone to embrace the issue, so far only the Governor of…

Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 12:49 PM Subject: Yoga Berras reassurance for frightend speakers I sat down to write a speech and got this E mail from a friend.how reassuring can a message get!! May 19, 2007: St. Louis native Yogi Berra addresses the crowd on hand for the Saint Louis University graduation. (David Carson/P-D)…

Several of you were rolling your eyes as I patiently attempted to explain a few basic option and futures (derivatives) strategies in Intermed II last semester.  Well check out the Front Page of the Friday July 6 2007 WSJ.  Commodity exchanges world wide are racing to invent new ways to gamble, er invest, er hedge…