I learned late last year that our friend Dick Pierce passed on Aug. 5, 2011, and, indeed, it was big news and sad news. The obituary was as expected, no doubt boiled down like a good Maine maple syrup to an especially noteworthy amount of accomplishments. But for those who knew Dick, there was so […]

The rich man’s worst nightmare undoubtedly is the vision that people will embrace socialism. The chronically maligned form of government has repeatedly saved the rich with people’s money when banks and other financial institutions had to rescued under the belief they were “too big to fail.” (AIG alone received $182 billion.) Sharing wealth or assuming […]