Author Archives: Sanford Rose

“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, on July 31, 1914, just days before the outbreak of the war. Jaurès was a pacifist, with ties to German pacifists and socialists. […]

“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 Recession are now so numerous that they surfeit the interested reader. Some ascribe the causes of the calamity to the cupidity of […]

“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 KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/7/2014—All energy comes, directly or indirectly, from converting electrons from a more excited to a less excited state. In the […]

“. . . 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 for his doggerel, the most famous example of which is “How odd of God to choose the Jews.” (A Jewish wag retorted: […]

“. . . 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 upsurge in toxic lending of the same period? Or did the lending explosion cause the housing boom? The inquiry is not academic. […]

“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 monumental Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The new rich are not rich because of capital gains or dividends. They are rich primarily […]

“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 KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/9/2014—The anniversary of the most important event of the last hundred years draws near. On June 28, 1914, the heir […]

“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 the Twenty-First Century. The Right is doing it to criticize. It’s picking on Piketty. The Left is doing it to celebrate the […]

“A growing segment of the aging population will work . . . to blunt the effect of undeniably adverse demographics . . . .”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/26/2014— We are the old—of increasing girth and decreasing shank. We’re supposed to slow down the economy by 1) quitting the work […]

“. . . Britain agreed, at least initially, to look the other way if Austria-Hungary temporarily occupied Belgrade . . . .”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/22/2014—Since the centennial of World War I approaches (July-August, 1914), I thought I’d do a summary of the viewpoints and culpability of the […]