March 2017 / That which we are, we are. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Lord Tennyson In 1944, Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal published “An American Dilemma,” the seminal study on race relations in America, in which he challenged Americans to bring their racial practices in line with their ideals. Myrdal’s...
February 2017 / When inflation began to bubble up 50 years ago during JFK’s presidency, it led to a corporate double-cross that inspired one of Kennedy’s most memorable lines. (include quote up here too?) Newly-installed in the Presidency, Kennedy’s team mandated that wage increases and price increases would have to match productivity increases. At that point in our history the...
January 2017 / Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night. — Bette Davis, All About Eve Before we focus on where we are headed as a country, some important bullet points about the 2016 Presidential election: Donald Trump won fewer votes than Mitt Romney in 2012. Hillary Clinton did much worse than Barack Obama did in 2012. Exit polls suggested 60% of voters considered Trump...
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...
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.