The Bard famously asked, "What's in a name?" In the case of TARP not much. It stands for Troubled Asset Relief Program, but the first word should really be Troubling. The haste with which it was created and rammed through Congress -- after the addition of $150 billion in sweetener...

As a Democrat, I am delighted that Barack Obama is now president-elect. I do not envy the magnitude of the challenges that he has to tackle, but he is a smart guy who taught constitutional law at University of Chicago. If our problems can be solved through the application of...

John McCain's lady pit bull -- she who must not be named -- is constantly asking us: Who is Barack Obama? It's possible that she's asking because she didn't pay attention to the Presidential race until she was nominated for VP, in which case she might actually not know the...

Today, I called my grandfather to wish him a happy birthday; he was doing laundry but paused long enough to ask me what the mood seemed like in New York. So naturally, I told him all about the gloom and doom, the bad and the worse, etc. And he responded...

I'm old enough to remember a long defunct brokerage called E.F. Hutton. As a kid, I was pummeled with the television ads built around the line, "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen." Of course, Mr. Hutton himself was long dead when those ads ran, and the firm was swallowed so...

As someone with ADD (ADHD), numbers don't really mean that much to me. Today's Dow, tomorrow's poll numbers, and the historic average temperature in New York in September are not part of my daily life. Apparently, I'm the exception: the media serves up and Americans consume ever greater amounts of...

I don't like most business meetings. In general, the important decisions have already been made, or the objectives are so ill defined that it's impossible to measure success. What does occur is a lot of pandering, strutting, puffing, lobbying and pleading. All of this can be quite entertaining, but my...

Adult ADD (ADHD) makes for obvious disadvantages, some less apparent but equally meaningful advantages, and traits that can be positive or negative, depending upon the circumstance. Into that last category falls impulsiveness, and one of its manifestations is verbal. Personally, I have a long track record of blurting out statements...

Sometimes, you get asked to do something that is so flattering that you forget to object on the grounds that the request is virtually impossible. Thus, when The Huffington Post asked me to find topical ways to blog about business leaders with ADHD (ADD), I leaped at the opportunity. I...

I know three things about ADHD (ADD) for certain. First, Michael Phelps has it; his mom has been good enough to use her media platform in places like The New York Times to talk about it. Thanks Mrs. Phelps. Second, I've got it; you could ask my psychiatrist at...

Next week, China will be upset in a closely contested Olympic race by team USA. It's not an official event, and I'm the only judge, but the Beijing Olympics isn't just for athletes. No, it's also a forum where nations unofficially compete to see who can best distract their populations...