Barring the end of the global financial system as we know it, I’m back to vacation photoblogging for the rest of the week. The Curious Capitalists are up in Northern California now, but I grew up here and find it far less exotically photogenic than the Southland. So I’ll robopost a few more shots from down there and maybe add to them if …
The Curious Capitalists spent last week visiting the Getty Center, the San Diego Zoo, and various other Southern California attractions. All the while I was getting bits of information here and there about the strange state of global financial markets, and feeling very out of it and confused. I’m still nominally on vacation today, but …
No, there’s no deeper meaning to this. I just thought it looked cool:
At the Ralph’s in Chatsworth:
On Third Street in L.A. I didn’t actually go inside, but according to the store’s website it “carries the definitive collection of designer pet collars, leashes, beds, toys, treats and bags along with one-of-a-kind gift items for toddlers and tots.” And while we’re at least halfway on the subject of dogs:
… it would make really funny-looking cars. Another in my continuing series of vacation photos, this one of what used to be a 1993 Ford Thunderbird:
I’m on vacation this week (not so sure about next week just yet). It’s a visit-the-family vacation, not a tropical island vacation, so I’ll be living in the civilized world and reading the paper and may feel compelled to write things here occasionally. Even if I don’t, though, I will post vacation photos. This is under the Santa Monica pier:
From an essay by historian William Dalrymple in Time Asia (thanks to Matthew Rees for the tip):
At their heights during the 17th century, the subcontinent’s fabled Mughal emperors were rivaled only by their Ming counterparts in China. For their contemporaries in distant Europe, they were potent symbols of power and wealth. In Milton’s
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I also wrote the opening mini-essay in this week’s magazine (we here at Time call it “The Moment”). It’s online here, but it’s so short that I might as well just post the whole thing:
It was the stock market’s worst month in three years. But the events of the last few days of July felt more ominous and potentially earthshaking than that
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I have a column in the new Time, with a New Orleans floodwall on the cover, and online here. It begins:
The Chinese executives were in New York City for a week of business-school classes. Even before economist Glenn Hubbard–dean of Columbia Business School and former chief of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers–finished
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A few weeks ago, The Epicurean Dealmaker declared that:
If any of you PE knuckleheads piss off Congress so much with your lame and pathetic special pleading that they decide to eliminate capital gains tax treatment altogether, you’d better find a deep, dark hole to run and hide in.
I don’t know about Congress, but I do know that this …
