Junta 2 met at the Algonquin Hotel in midtown to discuss the eternal problem of the ultimate unknown: God. Leading the discussion was Pete, fresh off reading Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens’s God is Not Great. Pete’s argument boiled down to atheism; literally, the opposite of theism, the belief in one god. …
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Wall Street Crisis
At Junta number 2 we are going to talk about the financial crisis that is dominating the news, many are calling it the worst since the Great Depression. I spent a few days last week at hedge fund conference in Greenwich and it was amazing to be surrounded by that crowd as the market …
China
I don’t know that I can even come close to providing the quality overview of the discussion that Rindy provided. The China discussion came second and everyone was pretty into the whiskey at this point and the conversation became a bit more free-wheeling. What I wanted to get was a sense of what people expected/hoped …
First Meeting of the Junta
In the first official meeting of the Junta, the topics of discussion were energy and China. I led the discussion of energy. The future lies in determining a new way to power our society, not only in this country but in the world. Specific to my argument, however, is that the United States must build …