Editor’s note: Howard Gerwin, a classmate from Rice University back in the day, sent me this note on Thursday, February…
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The deep freeze that has held Texas in its grip this week brought back memories –definitely not “warm” ones—of the…
At the risk of gross understatement: What a year 2020 has been. Yet there is hope for 2021. The argument for systemic change is as strong as it has been in recent years. And 2020 could have been even worse.
My paternal great-grandfather, Josef Franz Bílek, died on November 13, 1918, in the second wave of the Great Flu Pandemic.…
Spoiler alert: My summer book list is not exactly beach reading. After all, Chicago beaches are closed because of the…
I was on a Zoom call about Chicago’s economic recovery at 3:43 pm yesterday afternoon when my cell phone buzzed…
Did you know that the typical five-year strategic planning forecasts perform about as well as dart-throwing chimpanzees? Cognitive science and…
“Two new books about the historical roots of debt could hardly be more timely,” I wrote for The Washington Post Bookworld in…
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a double challenge: First, an increased sense of urgency to deal with the ravages of…
Riding a liquidity fueled mega-rally, the S&P 500 is back comfortably above 3000, having recovered more than 70 percent of what…