It’s controlled chaos. That’s what my driver told me yesterday. A Brazilian who spent twenty three years in Texas, illegally, he came home to see his dying dad and now he can’t go back to the U.S. for ten years, maybe he’ll emigrate to Portugal, right now he’s living with his dogs working seven days […]

The government has been unable to rein in hedge funds. But the remaining reporters at the “Denver Post” just might. For far too long we’ve revered money. And believed that those in possession of it know better. We’ve been sold this canard, that the rich are job creators, that if they triumph, so do we, […]

There is no other place I want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up from history The old President is going to jail. Which means he can’t run for President again. Serendipity delivered me to Rio on the biggest day of the year, the Supreme Court was deciding the future of […]

It’s all about income inequality. So I’m talking to Shep Gordon and he tells me not to leave the hotel without security. My sister says to bring no watch, to be wary of cellphone theft. And then the “New York Times” writes about yellow fever. WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? I’m not the paranoid type, but […]