November-December 2016 / By the time this magazine is in circulation, the nation will have voted and will either have a new president or be engaged in a ferocious Supreme Court battle to determine who that president should be. These past months, pundits and pollsters have bombarded us with dizzying statistics: In 2016 there were 156 million non-Hispanic white eligible voters vs. 70 million racial...
October 2016 / It’s appropriate at this moment in time and while we still have the luxury to take a breather from the clamor of the upcoming presidential election, to reflect back on the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, undoubtedly the most dramatic moment of the global financial crisis. The cracks in Lehman’s armor began to appear as early as 2006 when house prices in the U.S...
September 2016 / The old joke circulating that economists were created to make weathermen look good is making the rounds these days as everyone scrambles to make sense out of today’s headlines. When economies are properly functioning, funds flow in an orderly fashion to return categories, which reflect varying degrees of risk along the investment spectrum. But after the Brexit vote...
August 2016 / In my previous article I pointed out that the task of partitioning the Ottoman Empire during the First World War was delegated to two mid-level bureaucrats, Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot. The resulting Sykes-Picot Agreement, rushed through without much serious reflection, set in motion wars, coups, and ultimately released the twin terrors of radicalism and terrorism. As more...
June-July 2016 / For the history buffs in all of us, we would do well to remember what happened in 1916 while the First World War was raging on. Two mid-level diplomats, Mark Sykes and Francois George’s-Picot negotiated the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which became the blueprint for carving up the Ottoman Empire. While well-meaning, their actions inadvertently set in motion decade upon decade of...
Best-selling financial author, Wall Street investment banker, social commentator, award-winning poet, energy consultant, off-Broadway producer, and community organizer in Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign, Ron Spurga is the ultimate Renaissance Man.
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