January 23, 2005 | Posted by Steve Along with everything else going on in Washington these days there was high drama under way in the Senate chambers. Condi Rice was back before the Senate polishing up her own version of, “That’s My Story and I’m Stickin’ To It.â€Â She was pressed, yet again, to acknowledge that the President’s approach to Iraq, and [...]
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January 23, 2005 | Posted by Steve The camera slowly pans its way down the ailes of a dimly-lit jet. The people appear variously dazed, grinning like Cheshire cats, or in alcoholic stupors. One particularly sleazy character is shown pulling videotape from a cassette with a worried look on his face. A young bride and groom sit side by side, the bride [...]
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January 23, 2005 | Posted by Steve President Bush reminded us yet again this past week that he wants to end tyranny and oppression throughout the world. He wants to spread democracy and freedom, because only through democracy and freedom can we truly spread peace. I agree with him in principle. I believe that when you truly create a representative form of [...]
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January 23, 2005 | Posted by Steve The people in the cars around me every day on my way to work probably think I need medication. Sometimes I’m singing at the top of my lungs. Sometimes I’m conducting Shostakovich. Sometimes I’m on the phone, microphone affixed firmly to my ear, conducting multi-million dollar real estate negotiations for my properties in the Caymans. [...]
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January 12, 2005 | Posted by Steve Bristol-Myers Squibb – $9billion Intel – $6billion Dell – $4billion Oracle – $3.1billion Getting your off-shore corporate profits back into the U.S. TAX FREE…? It takes an Act of Congress. The numbers I just shared with you represent the latest greed-grab by American business. Is it any surprise that Congress went along with the scheme [...]
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January 12, 2005 | Posted by Steve John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” You don’t need to be a card-carrying Christian (if there is such a thing) to appreciate the sublime permanence of this Biblical truth. Stories of selfless heroism inspire us almost inherently. We appreciate the notion that laying [...]
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January 12, 2005 | Posted by Steve Kids are so easy to please. Smile at them. Tickle them. Tell them they’re the greatest kid on the face of the planet. It will make their day, if not their week, if not their life. That kind of stuff is what we in the management business call “the stroke.†It’s a strange phrase, really. [...]
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January 12, 2005 | Posted by Steve The trip to San Francisco probably wasn’t that bad. The hard-core frequent flyers on board claimed they had been through worse. Unfortunately I hadn’t. Two years of flights into and out of Chicago and all the winter storms and 20 knot crosswinds O’Hare and Midway airports could dish out didn’t prepare me for this. A [...]
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January 5, 2005 | Posted by Steve If you are like most homeowners these days you really don’t own your home. It’s a misnomer. The odds are strong you, like the vast majority of “homeowners,†took a loan, a “mortgage,†to purchase your home. You don’t really own it; you are just living in a house somebody else owns. The truth is [...]
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January 3, 2005 | Posted by Steve Here at NoMoreGreed.com we are often challenged to offer practical, anti-greed solutions to the problems we uncover. I have received not a few e-Mails asking things like, “So, I hear the criticism. What’s the solution?†With that in mind I’d like to offer occasional No-Greed public policy recommendations here on the first page. We might [...]
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