Fifty years ago..................................

The Beach Boys................................Dance, Dance, Dance

Don't know if it's progressive, but it sounds OK......

Truth....................................................

Decide............................................

thanks maggie

A boy tries hard.....................................

U2....................................................................I Will Follow



Thanks Rob

Tell us something we don't know.................

............................and we're a bit more than halfway done.

Finally.....................

More non-traditional self -help books here.

One of these days.....................................

..................................I'd like to visit John E. Smith's library.

Kind of quiet around here...................

Fifty years ago.....................................

Herman's Hermits.................................Just A Little Bit Better

I suspect there are as many blogs............

..............as there are stars in the Milky Way, but in case you're looking for one to check regularly, do visit Swiss-Miss.  She rocks.

Say it isn't so.......................................

.................................................Is Tootsie Roll truly at risk?

via

Everything is......................................

I'm wondering if cut-and-pasting is creative.....

As band names go, this one's not too bad.......

Sniff 'n' the Tears..............................................Driver's Seat



thanks Andrew

Some interesting excerpts.......................

         By training an entire generation of foreign bankers in American methods, Citibank helped create its own competition.  But Wriston, who was convinced that there was nothing more dangerous than a dumb competitor, reasoned that the bank would benefit in the long run.

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        At an auspicious June 30, 1961 luncheon, Kennedy lamented the poor quality of personnel who were working for the U. S. government in its foreign affairs agencies and asked Wriston and the other business and labor leaders to help him find better people for these jobs ... Wriston wanted to help.  but he told the president bluntly that top executives were reluctant to serve in government because of the difficulties they would have to face when they tried to return to their old jobs, particularly the grilling they would be forced to endure on potential conflicts of interest.  In fact, Wriston asserted, the government should try to recruit people who did have a conflict of interest, because they were the only ones capable of accomplishing anything.

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       For his part, Wriston parted ways with Saxon on the notion of merging all of the bank regulatory agencies into a single agency.  He favored competition among regulators just as he did among banks.  "Every industry that's been regulated by one federal regulator has gone bankrupt over time,"  Wriston said later.  "The number one example, of course, is the railroads."

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       All of this would reinforce for Wriston the folly of government interference in economic and financial markets and would soon demonstrate once again the principle that Wriston referred to as the "unintended secondary consequence of primary events."


-Phillip L. Zweig,  Wriston:  Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy

A tragic comedy..............................................

Spengler turns his eye towards China and pens a most interesting essay concerning, among other things, the U. S. of A., China, and the Middle East.  I wonder if anyone in Washington reads and thinks about what he writes?

"Opinion is divided between those who think that America is merely incompetent and those who think that America deliberately wants to destabilize the Persian Gulf."

The all-purpose cosmetic..............................

Fifty years ago.......................................

Peter & Gordon...................................................I Go To Pieces

How to get the kitty to take a bath.............