From Guy Geldworth, a friend of Sentence Parts:
Life is jittery in the office these days. Just trying to take care of our clients’ portfolios. We emphasize uncorrelated measures as we try to moor assets in safe harbors, yet it appears there’s nowhere to hide. I have to say it, the deregulated market seems to have [...]

Bob Pisani of CNBC, who reports from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, said of the plunging market 14 July 2008: “It all began well, but in the end was disappointing because they (equity traders and futures traders) sold into the rally.”A little translation: The news prior to market opening had been [...]

ill O’Reilly of Fox News is provoked. OK, so that’s an oxymoron because provocateur O’Reilly is always provoked. The irascible commentator has overreacted purposely once more. We can say that O’Reilly is excessively oxymoronic in his statements. The following provides background: In a 2008 commentary O’Reilly responded to words in a [...]

ann Wenner on the Charlie Rose interview program commented on the late, provocative (gonzo journalist*) Hunter S. Thompson’s death by suicide. Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone magazine and producer of an oral biography of Thompson, spoke thoughtfully on the profound subject of suicide which also intrigued the 16th Century writer Michel de Montaigne.
A little [...]

f we are simply a nation which absorbs information through sound bites (see below) and have become “visual junkies” deficient in our abilities to read information in full context, how can we be literate users of information in the world-at-large? That is, how can we be good consumers in a consumer marketplace, or more importantly, [...]