I’m so touched by the suicide of Mark Madoff, the son of Bernard Madoff in prison for a $50 billion scheme. He and his brother Andrew were the people who alerted the authorities after their father privately confessed. My father when he had Alzheimer’s invested in what turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and…

I came across a list of some of the countries where unemployment is higher than 20%. It’s 33.8% in Macedonia, 28.6% in Armenia, 27.3% in Algeria, 25.7% in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, 23.4% in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 22.9% in South Africa, 22% in Namibia and 20.5% in Columbia. True most of us…

In a recent talk to a conference on better using mobile health technology, Ted Turner, the founder of CNN among other achievements, said that the increasing interconnectedness of the world makes war increasingly undesirable. He pointed out that the media now makes it more difficult for nations to conduct military campaigns. He then cites the…