The Monday Melee: UFC’s Unbelievable Return
News broke this morning that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) had sold itself to a consortium of buyers led by talent agency WME-IMG. UFC is one of...
“So I Thought I Would Teach Myself About…”
The Newport Daily News had a wonderful feature on Middletown, RI resident, Pete Babcock, whose 42-year career in the NBA culminated in a championship...
Help Isn’t Coming!
“Help Isn’t Coming!” heads the introduction to The Ultimate Situational Survival Guide. “It may sound harsh, but the reality of most crisis situations is...
Van Morrison’s Keep It Simple
Van the Man’s Keep It Simple:
Whoa we got to get back to something simple just to save yourselves
Well got to get back to something...
A Love Story about Private Wealth
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better love story than this courtesy of Seth Siegel at the WSJ:
How does one overcome almost unimaginable horror...
Mafia Impresario Meyer Lansky: The Riviera Story
My friend Jack Colhoun wrote the book on Cuba. It’s called Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and The Mafia, 1933 to 1966. In his...
Hedge Funds on Wrong Side of Brexit
What will be the bigger loss for hedge funds, the money lost on their exclusive exit polls, or bets that are no longer in...
RAGE Gauge: Can’t Get No Satisfaction!
Another component of my RAGE Gauge is Americans' dissatisfaction with the direction of the country as measured by Gallup's poll of "Satisfaction With the...
Investing in Water
You can learn a tremendous amount about investment trends by thinking in terms of your family’s survivals needs. Lately, I’ve been keenly interested in...