by Ron Barak | Dec 29, 2015
You read about the Pfizer Allergan inversion facilitating gambit here first (that is if you are reading anything here, and if you’re not then . . . well, you don’t know what you’re missing, literally :-)). I reported that the estimated tax revenue loss resulting from...
by Ron Barak | Dec 24, 2015
In my most recent blog, I told you the true story about Mark the Plumber, from Texas, not to be confused with Joe the Plumber—and how ISIS is using social media and humorous photos of Mark’s truck surrounded by ISIS soldiers for great laughter—humiliating not only...
by Ron Barak | Dec 22, 2015
With all that’s been happening in the world today, you can’t blame one for becoming a tad . . . well, depressed. I was talking the other day to this nice, elderly woman. Recently at her wits end, she told me that she finally gave in to her feelings, picked up her...
by Ron Barak | Dec 17, 2015
Early today, unsubstantiated threats were sent to the country’s two largest school districts, New York and Los Angeles. They reacted night and day differently. New York played the odds, concluded the threat was not credible and kept its schools open, business as...
by Ron Barak | Dec 15, 2015
As we all prepare to select a new President next year (unless you maybe want to do it sooner!), I started thinking about what it is that make for a good leader, if not a great one. Here are five traits or qualities that occur to me: 1. Knowledge and intelligence...
