Gordon's Notes

Around 2:30pm Amex.app tells me a $1.00 authorization charge has been placed for Priceline. Which I didn’t do.  I’m in a meeting so I figur...

These are the last days of app.net. It ends in 3 days. App.net has been good to me . Great tools, smart and interesting people, RSS integrat...

Once upon a time tens of thousands of New Yorkers moved paper from one file cabinet to another. Once upon a time there were jobs for strong ...

I’ve been using “crisis-T” as a tag for our times. I used to think it was a bit melodramatic; that maybe T would somehow veer to the fantas...

The absolute minimal response to Crisis-T starts with financial support for quality journalism and donation to the ACLU . If you have a reas...

I awoke last night sweaty and anxious. I was dreaming about the kipping muscle up ; a move that still eludes me. Which is nuts. I am an ol...

Quicken for Mac 2017 new features … Compare your income and spending year over year with custom reports Customize your budgeting goals mo...

It’s a human thing. Something insane happens and we try to figure out “why now?”. We did a lot of that in the fall of 2001. Today I looked b...

All the money Trump will take from the poor and give to the rich has to go somewhere. So share prices should rise. On the other hand, a 10%...

In the real world HRC is President and the GOP is beginning a painful reform process that will lead to a far better conservative party and a...

The NYT has a readable summary of Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman’s US income research . Much of it is familiar, but I was ...

I hope to write about my response to “crisis-T". Yes, that T. The anti-O.  This is a prelude to that post. It’s a note about Orchid Is...

The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2017 Despair and Hope in Trump’s America - James Fallows - The Atlantic … I view Trump’s election as the most griev...

It’s dull stuff, but if you’re a lazy investor it’s hard to beat dollar cost average investing. Every month dollars automatically flow from ...

I’ve seen this movie before … How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer … The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has invested in the...