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  • By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist NEW YORK TIMES     Last week TerraUSD, a stablecoin — a system that was supposed to perform a lot like a conventional bank account but was backed only by a cryptocurrency called Luna — collapsed. Luna lost 97 percent of its value over the course of just 24 hours, apparently destroying some…

  • Berra spent 19 seasons with the New York Yankees and finished his career with three MVP awards, 15 All-Star game appearances and 12 World Series home runs. He holds the record for most World Series games played with 75. What Berra might have thought about these times.-   "Everything that you thought is wrong is right…

  • September 29, 2018, Game 161 against Boston Red Socks, Yankees break Seattle Mariners 1997 single season record of 264 home runs. Gleyber Torres breaks record with 265 and Giancarlo Stanton makes it 266. Yankees are first team in history to get 20+ home runs from every number in the lineup.     

  • (A spoiled, whiny, man who thrives on intimidation and likes to play by his own rules.  Since trump has denigrated women, by his logic he would be entitled to ask for the recusal of any female judge who gave him an unfavorable ruling in one of his 3500 lawsuits.)     A Biased Judge? Donald Trump Has Claimed It…

  • If a 12 year old boy who ends every sentence with O.K,  Believe me , It's terrible, or It's great, is your idea of solid government then Trump is your candidate. Mix in the verbal deliveries of Gilbert Gottfried, Andrew Dice Clay and Joan Rivers and you have for yourself the perfect opening act at "Catch A Rising Star". In…

  • ESPN.com news services NEW YORK — Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame catcher renowned as much for his dizzying malapropisms as his record 10 World Series championships with the New York Yankees, has died. He was 90. Berra died of natural causes Tuesday at his home in New Jersey, according to Dave Kaplan, the director…

  •                                                                                            9/11 September 11, 2015 It has been 14 years. My, how the time goes by. Those who have personal memories feel it. Steven came in and slapped my back. Still here! Thank you, Steven. He has his own experience. Bob and I didn’t compare notes today. He and Mimi have their experiences. So do…

  •                                                   In all honesty, I can lay no claims to having been a star student. That role was reserved for my younger brother Albert, recognized by all around him as a prodigious talent well before he went on to become a renowned mathematical logician and defense intellectual. At seventeen, while a student at…

  • Proposed site of the 1000 room hotel and casino less than an hour north of N.Y.C.. The Genting $1.5 Billion proposal is one of six for Orange County.  Genting already has the highest grossing casino in North America, next to Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.  

  •  Whale surfaces to eat a snack in the waters off New York City.- CBS News                                            

  • One of the most endearing and talented entertainers of our era has past away, reportedly as a suicide..  A fine actor of varied skills, he had an organic intensity and a great quality for eliciting empathy from the viewers.  The master of improvisational comedy, Robin had incredible skills of mimicry, creativity and physical delivery, that enabled…

  • Sky High and Going Up Fast: Luxury Towers Take New York A rendering of 432 Park Avenue, an 84-story tower. By CHARLES V. BAGLI Published: May 18, 2013 Only 10 floors have been completed in what is intended to be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere — a slender, 84-story tower on Park…

  • How Boaz Weinstein and Hedge Funds Outsmarted JPMorgan The New York Times | 27 May 2012 | 02:02 AM ET Boaz Weinstein didn’t know it, but he had just hooked the London Whale.  It was last November, and Mr. Weinstein, a wunderkind of the New York hedge fund world, had spied something strange across the…

  • By Martha C. White In many parts of the country, a million bucks will buy you a mansion. In New York City, you can get a 12-foot by 23-foot slab of concrete. Yes, Manhattan's first $1 million parking space is scheduled to go on the market this fall. This seven-figure private garage is in an…

  •        GO- JEREMY- GO Relief for the long suffering Knicks fans has come from a most unsuspecting place.  The Lakers got their relief with a great trade for Gasol, but this relief came off the bench.  Never-mind a $20M a year contract for a superstar, this relief is in the form of a young guy…

  • C'mon man;  In his latest act of buffoonery, Trump has pulled out of his moderator's role in the Republican debate which all but two campaigners refused to attend in the first place.  Self promotion is what gets Donald Trump out of bed each morning. The fact that he initiated the debate to coincide with the release of a…

  • As one of the self appointed spokesmen for the 99%, I want the banks and brokerage houses to make a lot of money, but I want them to do it using talent and experience, not extreme leverage and shaky products that the public has to bail out if they don't work out.  The public is backstopping banks' massive…

  •   On September 8, 2008 Lehman Brothers announced that it was going to hold it's third quarter fiscal release on September 18th, and disclose strategic initiatives the company was undertaking.  As pressures rose on the stock, Lehman decided to release it's unfinished plans on September 10th.  The market was disappointed to hear tentative plans and not actual measures that the…

  • James Cayne, Chairman of Bear Stearns, bought a condo in the Plaza this week for $26.5 Million.  This added to another condo he had previously bought on the same floor for $2.6 million. Of course anyone can buy anything they want if they can pay for it, but when the purchase comes the same week…

  •        If you're interested in a condo that is new, but looks pre-war, has a private park, 30 separate wine cellars, 29 maid's suites located on the lower floors and you don't mind paying $3300 per square foot, I have just the place for you. Built by the Zeckendorfs and architect Robert Stern,…