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The Big Short – Inside the Doomsday Machine

Can Hollywood Explain a CDO? Loved the movie with Steve Carrell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt and I’m halfway through the book by Michael Lewis. If I had to summarize both it would be they recount how some “masters of the universe” on Wall Street through ignorance, … [Read more...]

Why Service Clubs Matter

I’m not really a joiner and when my boss “suggested” that I join Rotary back in the late 80’s, I thought, okay, a free lunch on Monday isn’t the worst thing in the world since the company agreed to pay for my membership. But I soon learned that it takes more than being a member … [Read more...]

Durham Magazine

Several years ago my friend and fellow Rotarian, Steed Rollins, asked me to take a turn at being the "reporter" who composed a little recap of the meeting program for publication in the weekly Bulletin that was distributed at the following meeting. I did it a few times after that … [Read more...]