Author: Vivian Lewis

I stirred up an international can of worms yesterday with my memories of the bombing of the Copernic Synagogue. A French-born reader says I was wrong about the date; it was in Oct. 1980 not 1981. The person who made the...

Luckily I beat back my theatre urge in London the week before last and was nowhere near Times Square on Sat. night. I’m very glad the bomb was in a purple SUV; had it been a more boring color maybe it would not have been...

From Bangkok where a relative lives: This afternoon I took the sky train first of all to Silom Rd, the main street off which Patpong runs. Lots of heavily armed soldiers milling around on both sides of the street who are...

Do you remember the Daily News headline: “Ford to City: Drop Dead”? That is what the Germans remind me of. Greece is as unlikely to withdraw from the EU and the euro as my native city from the rest of the USA. Greece...

Exchange-traded notes or Exchange-traded nightmares?I’m back in the USA and the blog is late because of the pileup of business during my absence. There are scary new entities coming in the exchange traded products market,...

Your editor is writing a day early because, so Gott will, I am scheduled to fly home tomorrow. Before we leave I have to clean the place up for the next arrivals, my son and his family, and I cannot write and vaccuum at the same...

  We really need the Oracle of Delphi in the current Greco-Euro crisis. Yesterday, after the Eurostat official statistics office put out nasty revised figures for the Greek budget deficit, the spread on what Greek debt...

Ash is like cash. The airline eruption disruption now is blamed on ‘too much modeling, too little research’. That sounds familiar. Big picture forecasts of how the wind would blow took the place of micro examination...

We’re still in London. Baa baa BA. Having been told our flight to JFK was on, but would leave 2 hours late and that we were expected to check in at the normal time, we schlepped ourselves to Hethrow only to told upon...