In case you missed it, actor Sean Penn wrote a long, rambling piece for Rolling Stone about “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord who recently escaped from prison. Somewhere in the 10,000-word essay is a surprisingly trite, pandering, and frankly embarrassing interview. More interesting is the way Penn seems to[…] Read On
Why aspirations and not resolutions? I don’t want to let anyone down by setting high expectations. The way I figure, if I set the bar low enough, maybe I’ll at least have a shot at some of this stuff. Come on, quit laughing; it was worth a try. Anyway, here[…] Read On
The way federal prosecutors, the FBI, and the SEC clamored to get on camera when Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli was indicted on fraud charges, you’d think they were bringing down a Bernie Madoff or Al Capone. Nope. It was just a little hedge fund fraud over a few million[…] Read On
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget. Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s because nobody thinks they’re[…] Read On
When stocks and other asset classes seem overvalued, we ask if we’re in a bubble. For a while, fools try to explain it away with lines like, “It’s different this time because [fill in the blank with ever more creative forms of denial].” When we can no longer deny that[…] Read On
Real Leaders Don’t Follow is full of lessons learned the hard way – through real world experience with big bucks and executives’ careers on the line – but none more important than the one portrayed in the book’s final chapter, The Evolved Leader, which also happens to be my favorite.[…] Read On
Charlie Sheen has HIV. Now there’s a news flash. And he’s been paying off all sorts of bimbos – I mean the women he has sex with – to keep quiet about it for years. But wait, there’s more. Ex-wife Denise Richards knew all along! OMG, no way! On a[…] Read On