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In 1492 Columbus Sailed…With a PR Team

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Monday October 12th is Indigenous Peoples Day. If you miss the parade, you likely missed the one for Leif Erikson on October 9th, which was also the anniversary of John Lennon’s birthday—but be patient, I will connect the dots. Today, an emotionally skewed country celebrates the day in 1492, when Christopher Columbus discovered America. Most […]

Trust Government

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Government was a beacon of clarity during another pandemic in 1349. Politicians being no different than now, had much to say about the crisis. Science, although in its infancy, had its own versions of Dr. Fauci types who also added to the mix because it was in everyone’s best interests to save lives. Motives were […]

Business Truth

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In business, truth is a hard thing to find. The King and Queen of Spain told Christopher Columbus they would meet his request of Knighthood and a 10% royalty on all he had found in the new world. Ferdinand and Isabella were educated enough to know Columbus wouldn’t sail off the end of the earth. […]

Patriot Day September 11 2001

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Four months and 3 days prior to this date, I took early retirement from Merrill Lynch after decades of leadership to discover and correct market misalignment’s my own way. Orchestrating an alliance of other Wall Street and Business Executives I founded a broker-dealer advisory firm that drove revenue & alpha performance during a time the […]