• Unsung Villains of World War I

    “Bit players sometimes steal the show.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/21/2014—Let’s start with someone who was named Villain—Raoul Villain. He shot Jean Jaurès, the French socialist leader,…

  • Fed Up

    “The Fed allowed itself to be distracted by a misguided concern with headline inflation . . . .”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/14/2014—Post mortems on the Great…

  • The Turbine Within Us

    “The body uses a lot of ATP; in fact, even a sedentary man weighing around 150 lbs. requires around 183 lbs. of ATP each day.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose…

  • An Anniversary Anthem

    “. . . young men die because old men lie.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/30/2014—William Norman Ewer wrote little poetry. The British journalist (1885-1976) was chiefly known…

  • Was It the Chicken, or the Egg?

    “. . . the housing boom of 2002-2005 was . . . a banker-created excrescence.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/23/2014—Did the housing boom of 2002-2005 cause the…

  • A Piketty Pot Pourri

    “It is not true that globalization is the primary cause of the relative impoverishment of the American worker.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/16/2014—On dipping into Thomas Piketty’s…

  • Teuton vs. Slav

    “In acting against Serbia . . . Austria-Hungary and its ally, Germany, felt they were defending their Teutonic empires against . . . malevolent Slavs.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose…

  • Picking Up Piketty

    “There looks to be more inequality in our future . . . .”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/2/2014—Everyone’s doing it–picking up Thomas Piketty’s chef d’oeuvre, Capital in…