Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
I’ve often thought that we Midwesterners are the most compliant people on Earth, trusting to the point of accepting insult with a smile, and I thought so again on Sunday when I got the most painful massage of my entire long life. It was at a spa at the airport; I had two hours before my flight, so...
Eight a.m. is a fine time to go out for a walk in New York City because you get caught up in the happiness of little kids dressed up for school, holding a parent’s hand, jazzed...
My mother, Grace, and her sister Elsie were lifelong best friends, two adjacent younger girls in a family of 13, and our two families had Thanksgiving together every year,...
The rule is “Only buy oysters on the half-shell in months with an R in them,” but I took some relatives to dinner Friday and shelled out fifty bucks for a dozen shells of not...
“Cricket is baseball for people with brains”, the contrarian cricket enthusiast, Piers Morgan, told viewers and listeners to the US Cricket Daily, the world's first and only...
On Saturday, 29 May 1660, the diarist John Evelyn wrote: “I stood in the Strand, and beheld it, and blessed God: and all this without one drop of blood, and by that very army...
I once owned a house on Goodrich Avenue in St. Paul, across the street from a house Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald rented in 1921 when Zelda gave birth to their daughter, Scottie,...
Family offices and institutional investors are programmed to ignore cold emails. And it’s not because they’re mean or don’t like your deal. It’s because they can’t...
The annual announcement of the Booker Prize Longlist is one of the highlights of the publishing calendar for readers of new fiction in English. The remit of the Booker is now so...
I swear I never thought the day would come when I would arrive for a summer weekend at a rural paradise and suddenly be in a panic that I may have left the charger for my hearing...