The Palantir Newsletter

For every finish–line tape a runner breaks—  complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras—there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about. -Grete Waitz For basketball fans, little can compare with the annual NCAA Basketball Tournament which takes place in March.  Teams…

And I’ll stand there with the Wizard…When people see me, they will scream for half of Oz’s favorite team: The Wizard and I! –Elphaba, Wicked—The Broadway Musical For those of you not familiar with the storyline of the Broadway musical “Wicked,” the story begins by taking the audience back in time from the death of…

A place where there isn’t any trouble.  Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto?  There must be.  It’s not a place you can get to by a boat or a train.  It’s far, far away.  Behind the moon, beyond the rain… -Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz Growing up we had one of those…

“Oh troika, winged troika, tell me who invented you? Surely, nowhere but among a nimble nation could you have been born in a country which has taken itself in earnest and has evenly spread far and wide over half of the globe, so that once you start counting the milestones you may count on till…

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than what others are saying. -Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We are overwhelmed by silence!  The quarter ended with a bang, brought about largely by the silence of the Federal Reserve.  In their…

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. -Jonathan Swift It is football season, and in the South we take our football seriously.  Regardless of whether one is talking about a group of seven year olds running a “twenty-six jet” or an NFL team setting up a “soft zone – prevent” defense…

The inherent vice of Capitalizm is the unequal sharing of blessings.  The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. – Winston Churchill We live in a relativistic world; one in which toleration is the highest form of virtue.  While we could wax on eloquently about the profound bankruptcy of such a worldview,…

One can hardly look at the Papers these days without being bombarded with the activities of two seemingly unrelated entities.  The NFL and the Federal Reserve would, on the surface, appear to have little in common.  After all the FED is staffed by straight laced bankers and PH.D. types and the NFL….well you get the…