Monthly Archives: October 2009
Bankoween! Nine Banks, 153 Branches
And you thought Halloween was scary? Most Saturday mornings I wake up and the first thing I do, besides swilling coffee, is to sit down at the FDIC website and throw the latest bank reorganization dated into what has become … Continue reading
The Art of Delayed Decisions
Over the course of my first six decades of stumbling around and bumping into ideas, I came across a very important one in about 1986. Goes like this: In management, there’s a fine art to harmonizing with coming events and … Continue reading
Coping: With Personal Instrumentation
A curious way of looking at the world, but a valid framing concept is this one: Modern science has – over the past several hundred years – been adding ‘personal instrumentation’ to our lives yet I think it’s an open … Continue reading
Some Anniversary
Not to sound to ‘geeky’ this morning, but do you know what was going on 29,220 days ago? If you haven’t had a lot of coffee yet, another hint might be 80-years ago…but that makes it just too obvious: Wall … Continue reading
Coping: With Critics
A reader sent me a rather critical note yesterday, taking me to task for wanting to build a large walk-in shower for our master bath. The note went to the idea of “What about the environmentally sensitive, resource-conscious deep thinker … Continue reading
So Much for Glitter?
The price of gold was showing down $8 per ounce early on, which using the “Ure Ratio” seems to suggest that the Dow could drop 70-100 points at the open. Already – a couple of hours before today’s open, headlines … Continue reading
Coping: With Windows 7
“George that new Windows 7 product is full of NSA backdoors…” “George, when are you going to make the switch over to Open Source?” “George [this]…” and “George [that]…” Although lots of people have opinions (and everyone has a … Continue reading
The “Ure Ratio”
The “Ure Ratio” At its NY high yesterday, around 10 AM, gold was pressing up on $1060 per ounce. From there it dropped to about $1,038. That’s a ‘swing’ of $22. The Dow meanwhile, had a Monday intraday high of … Continue reading
Coping: With Presidential Golf
The Politico story that president O has played as much golf in 9-months as Dubya did in 2 year 10 months has me back to contemplating getting out the irons to play a little golf now that cooler weather has … Continue reading
Tensions Build – Which Cause?
Since the world has slipped over the weekend from ‘release language’ to ‘building tension language” we have a number of items which are candidates to be precursors to what happens next over the next several weeks – and there may … Continue reading