The next chapter of the Texas deep freeze/blackout saga has begun, with bankruptcies, obscene energy bills, and lawsuits. This was…
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Editor’s note: Howard Gerwin, a classmate from Rice University back in the day, sent me this note on Thursday, February…
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. And yet… Even with the enormous human cost…
My paternal great-grandfather, Josef Franz Bílek, died on November 13, 1918, in the second wave of the Great Flu Pandemic.…
“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…
How often do you or those around you recognize that a problem exists but come up with any number of…
Will the COVID-19 pandemic make it easier or harder to combat climate change? Many articles have appeared in recent weeks…