Category Archives: Wealth
Upstream on Geneva Lake
After the great Chicago fire of October, 1871, many of the city’s wealthy decamped to Geneva Lake in southern Wisconsin. On Monday I took a ferry tour around the deep, spring-fed, eight square mile lake to see what had become … Continue reading
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Anarchy at the A&P
“Don’t you miss the days when America was just morally bankrupt?” – Bill Maher Saturday morning I ran into Trent in the parking lot at the supermarket. “You see this?” he replied, holding a map of the United States he’d … Continue reading
Filed under Imagine, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Wealth
Na’vi To Open Na’viwoods Casino in Connecticut
Avashantucket, CT 1/17/10 The Na’vi tribe announced today its plan to construct a gaming operation here, the first of many to be built nationwide. The 42-acre Connecticut resort will feature a 5-story hotel and casino, the latter offering slot machines … Continue reading
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One of These Things is Not Like the Others
Welcome to Greatwood Northstone Cherry Creek Hill Forest Villa Point Estates, a model neighborhood where nature, recreation and privacy coexist. Live this life, our life, your life, your perfect life, in a spectacular setting beside the 18th hole, with panoramic … Continue reading
Filed under Holidays, Imagine, Middle-aged Guys, popular culture, Uncategorized, Wealth
White House Appoints Amish as Chief Wall Street Overseers
Plain Dress Short Selling to Replace Naked Short Selling Manhattan – The Obama administration announced Sunday a set of sweeping changes that will place all of Wall Street under the watchful regulatory eye of a community for whom integrity and austerity … Continue reading
Filed under Headlines, Meeting Canceled, The Street, Wealth
Economic Cleanup in Aisle 3: A Fiscal Stimulus on the Rocks
by Jeff Sawyer The wife and I came up with an economic stimulus plan of our own the other night, and it’s pretty straightforward: legislate a two-drink minimum at the supermarket. We shared a couple of stiff ones before heading … Continue reading
Filed under Election, Shop til you stop, The Street, Wealth
On Wednesday, my pal George won $42 million
in his state lottery and paid off a lifetime of debt inside the hour. By Monday he’d visited 13 countries, even went back through a couple of them a second time looking for a favorite sneaker he’d lost (found it … Continue reading
Take a royal proclamation
from England, the country our ancestors fled. Surely you have a proclamation lying around. Wherever it reads “The King,” substitute “The Stockholders.” What’s really changed?
Filed under The Street, Wealth
As they age,
“successful” people begin to mistake owning things for knowing things. They internalize the marketing that came with their possessions: the Jaguar brochure that describes them as discerning, the attitude of the model who sold them on that Lauren polo. Until … Continue reading
Filed under Middle-aged Guys, Shop til you stop, Wealth
