IN THIS ISSUE: Have We Been Lucky or Smart? What If....? The Media's Never Gonna Get It What Might the Future Hold? Introduction Just a month ago, a would-be terrorist attempted to detonate a car bomb in New York's Times Square. Had he been successful, hundreds or quite possibly thousands of...
Dear Reader, I worry I shall disappoint you today. After all, how can mere words, pecked out awkwardly on a shaky airplane table, adequately communicate all that has occurred this week? As regular readers may guess, the plane I am on is taking me to Las Vegas for our sold-out Crisis & Opportunity...
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Dear Reader, We’re going to be flying low and fast in this weekly scan of the landscape in the quest for items that are “important,” as opposed to “merely interesting.” At the top of the list of what we would consider important is the increasing likelihood that the wheels are about to come off the global...
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Dear Readers, I have woken in the pre-dawn to find our direst predictions coming true, with global stock markets taking yet another pounding and U.S. stock futures limit down. Serving as a proxy for the mindset now gripping governments around the world, French President Sarkozy has announced that the...
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September 26, 2008 Dear Readers, What a world I have returned to from my cloistered retreat at the beautiful Vivenda Miranda , scenically situated on a cliff outside of the quaint port town of Lagos, Portugal. Everything has changed. Everything is changing. The storm we have so long tried to help you...
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Written: April 25, 2008 Dear Reader, What an interesting week! Having been a single parent for two weeks, with the kids on spring break for the second of those, I have attained a whole new level of appreciation, yes, I think that's the word, for the difficulty associated with holding down the home...
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Written: April 18 2008 Dear Readers, I am running quite late this sunny New England morning. But I have a good excuse: my wife has left me. Well, it's not all that dramatic... it is just that she has hived off for Europe for a ten-day gallivant with friends, leaving me in sole charge of the children...