NEW ***NEW***NEW NEW BOOK COMING I’ve just signed a contract for my fifth book. “THE COMPANIES WE LOVE: Six Companies That Project a Hip, Progressive Image — and Whether We Should Believe Them” will be published by Beacon Press in 2012.
STORY OF THE WEEK:
When Will We Grow Up?
from Newsweek, Feb. 15, 2010
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233158
You have to cry. You almost have to give up. Americans whine about taxes and don’t seem to care about the debt they are leaving for their children. Americans insist on cheap gas and refuse to believe all the evidence of climate change. They want government out of their lives — except when they want it in their lives, to pay for Social Security, schools that will get their kids into Harvard, highways without tolls, and immediate reimbursement if their neighborhoods are hit with a natural disaster. Politicians are delighted to feed this irresponsible selfishness. And therefore no one will make any compromises or sacrifices. You have to give up — except you can’t. So I keep volunteering at phone banks. If I make 70 calls, and one person listens, that’s a start.
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I have over 20 years of experience specializing in health care, retirement issues, and the nexus between business and public policy.
I am a former editor and/writer at Fortune, Business Week, the Bergen Record, Crain’s New York Business, and Institutional Investor.
My last book, “Pension Dumping: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street” (Bloomberg Press, 2008) has won top awards from ForeWord magazine and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
I now write for The New York Times, Newsday, The Scientist, the Websites portfolio.com and scientificamerican.com, Institutional Investor, and more.
