SchwartzReport: Frank Rich on Fantasyland — A Public Without the Truth Gets a Government Far Removed From the Truth

Fantasyland Denial has poisoned the GOP and threatens the rest of the country too EXTRACT: The country has a larger problem-‘intellectual nihilism,” as the writer Noam Scheiber recently labeled it. Since 9/11, often but not always under the right’s aegis, truth has been destabilized in America. The Bush administration’s contempt for what it dismissed as …

Schwartz Report: Building Small — Economies of Number

Public release date: 2-Nov-2012   .   Contact: Evan Nowell   .   egn2109@columbia.edu   .   Columbia Business School   Building small: In many industries, economies of size is shifting to economies of numbers NEW YORK — November 2, 2012 — For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power …

Robert Steele Has Watched: The Four Cantors

Yaakov Yanky Lemmer, Azi Schwartz, and Netanel Hershtik come together in Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue for this concert of Jewish sacred and secular music. Enjoy shabbat songs, traditional music, and songs with a nod to Broadway. Amazon Prime: New York Cantors

Art Kleiner: The Felt-Fair Economy and the Future of Economic Confidence

THE FELT-FAIR ECONOMY AND THE FUTURE OF ECONOMIC CONFIDENCE By Art Kleiner Introduction In the 1940s, Elliott Jaques – an eminent and original organizational theorist, and the person who coined the terms “corporate culture” and “midlife crisis” – introduced a management metric he called “felt-fair pay.” He interviewed thousands of employees at hierarchical organizations around …