More data, please

For those feeling like there might be more to the economic picture than the Dow, or the ‘big three’ (I’m sure someone calls it that) of the Dow, GDP and headline unemployment, Jeff Frankels provides a helpful run-down of the wealth of public data you can follow to keep tabs on the economy.  But wait, [...]

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Mt. Madison/Mt. Adams

Last week, following a business trip to San Francisco and our church’s fall getaway in Rumney, NH, I headed north with three friends to camp and hike in the Northern Presidentials, the most famous of which is Mt. Washington (as in, ‘This Car Drove Up Mt. Washington’).  The trip easily ranks as one of my [...]

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Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost

‘I hear on all sides of the extent of my reputation-which some even call “fame”. It is the thing I have most wanted from childhood-although of course in much greater degree-and now that I seem to have it I have no understanding whatever of its basis-of what it is that makes people respond to what [...]

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Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

‘Having read many Books of Morality, such as Cicero, Seneca & Plutarch, & being smit with their beautiful Representations of Virtue & Philosophy, I undertook the Improvement of my Temper & Will … I had no Hopes of delivering my Opinions with such Elegance & Neatness, as to draw to me the Attention of the [...]

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Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost*

‘No matter how right we are in what we believe about God, no matter how accurately we phrase our belief or how magnificently and persuasively we preach or write or declare it, if love does not shape the way we speak and act, we falsify the creed, we confess a lie. Believing without loving is [...]

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More on the crisis

In advance of this weekend’s G7/8 and IMF meetings, a number of the world’s top economists have published a 38-page booklet entitled Rescuing our jobs and savings: What G7/8 leaders can do to solve the global credit crisis.  From the abstract:
Without rapid and coordinated action by G7/8 leaders, this financial crisis could turn into a [...]

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San Francisco

This week I’ve been working from San Francisco, and Leann and Jacob made the trip out with me. This was a wonderful surprise trip for us, and we’ve had the opportunity to visit with family and a number of friends we probably won’t get to see when we’re here again for Christmas. I [...]

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Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

‘…[I]f a man were always anxious that he himself, above all things, should act justly, temperately, or in accordance with any other of the excellences… no one will call such a man a lover of self or blame him. But such a man would seem more than the other a lover of self; at all [...]

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