frontline: best non-fiction show on TV

Frontline is on PBS, but is also available online. Think of it as a very extended 60 Minutes. So instead of a 20-minute segment, they’ll do an hour+ deep-dive. I’ve seen and totally recommend these episodes which are online: News War (on the state of the news and media industry and where it’s going) Mormons (a […]

efficient markets? ha!

The stock markets for the past 3 weeks has been just fascinating. And by fascinating, I mean quite crazy and on most days, quite painful. I studied Finance at Rutgers, and we learned a lot about how “efficient” the markets were. How all available and whispered about information is efficiently synthesized by the vast army […]

tech bubble 2.0: coming soon to a market near you?

I shudder to even type the words, but I wonder if another stock market tech bubble is forming. The last time we were here, at the end of the last decade, everyone’s cash flowed into tech and telecom because it seemed like a sure thing. Exuberance all around. Today, the exuberance is missing– but the […]

movie review: “the kingdom”

I think the last movie review I wrote was for the high school paper. In honor of having just seen a sneak preview for the movie “The Kingdom” tonight, and since it doesn’t open until the end of September, I thought it would be fun to add mine. The Kingdom is a must-see. The action […]

excellence is the ultimate meme.

Around 11 on Sunday night, I went to go see The Bourne Ultimatum. It was excellent: The acting, direction, writing, action sequences, music, timing– everything. Since then I’ve read a few articles about how well Matt Damon, the lead actor playing Bourne, and Paul Greengrass, the director of the film, worked together and generally hailing the […]