Two articles. This first one is the book review ‘against’ High Speed Trading. The second will provide perspective. ======== In the spring of 2007, Brad Katsuyama, a rising New York banker at the Royal Bank of Canada, RY.T +0.01% realized something was funny with the markets. He was trying to buy 10,000 shares of Intel, INTC -0.38% offered at... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Book Review: ‘Flash Boys’ by Michael Lewis – WSJ.com
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EconomicsThe Dissing of the President
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaMr Stephens only provides a small number of examples… ===== I’ve never liked the word diss—not as a verb, much less as a noun. But watching the Obama administration get the diss treatment the world over, week-in, week-out, I’m beginning to see its uses. Diss: On Sunday, Bloomberg reported that Hasan Rouhani named Hamid Aboutalebi to serve as the ambassador to the United... Read more
Jeremiah Denton – Remember him?
April 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing FreedomJeremiah Denton never blinked. He did not blink while leading bombing runs over North Vietnam as commander of a squadron of A-6 Intruders. He did not blink after he was shot down and taken prisoner on July 18, 1965, three days after his 41st birthday. And he did not blink when, 10 months later, he was hauled before a Japanese film crew... Read more
Advice for a Happy Life – Charles Murray
March 31 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, PersonalLots of good advice. ============== The transition from college to adult life is treacherous, and this is nowhere more visible than among new college graduates in their first real jobs. A few years ago, I took it upon myself to start writing tips for the young staff where I work about how to avoid doing things that would make their supervisors write... Read more
Noonan: Warnings From the Ukraine Crisis
March 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Crimea, Losing Freedom, Noonan, Russia, The LeftA good read. ====== What has been happening in Ukraine is not a wake-up call precisely but a tugging at the attention, a demand to focus. There’s a sense that in some new way we are watching the 21st century take its shape and express its central realities. Exactly 100 years ago, in August 1914, the facts that would shape the 20th century... Read more
