February 2014

Frank Boland
February 07, 2014

It was the end of a day as I sat in a local restaurant kvetching to a friend.  Kvetching is Yiddish for complaining.  I really love Yiddish because it often captures not only a word but the sound of feeling in the word.  It’s spoken emotion.  “It’s been a five-year secular bull market,” I kvetched.   “So what’s the problem?” he asked.  “...

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”

– Bernard Baruch