Broback's Blog

I posted back in September about how (despite the Wall Street meltdown) hotel rooms in New York appeared to be insanely overpriced. If hotel rates tracked to the Dow, the room I booked back in 2003 at $225.00 per night should have cost $248.00 in Sept. The real rate? A gouge-a-rific $579.00. At the current […]

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I don’t get it. Wall Street is in the process of losing tens of thousands of incredibly high paying jobs: Wall Street salaries average $340,000, or more than five times those in the rest of the city’s economy. Each securities job creates two others, according to the state comptroller’s office, meaning the hurt will be […]

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I wrote yesterday about Sidney Rittenberg, who spoke at the Future in Review conference this week. As a Laurel and Hardy fan, I found his discussion of how the Chinese leaders in the 40’s we’re also avid followers intriguing. This passage is from his book where he describes how Mao and other leaders were privately fans […]

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The session was titled “The Next China: Beyond the Olympics” and was hosted by Russ Daggatt of Denny Hill Capital. The session opened with an introduction by documentary filmmaker Lucy Ostrander who has captured many hours of interviews with Sidney Rittenberg, an American who lived in China for over thirty years — starting in 1944.  […]

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Can hardly wait to get to sunny San Diego to attend the FiRe (Future in Review) conference. I went to last year’s event at the Del Coronado in San Diego and it was invigorating to say the least. Based on the guest list, I hope to get caught up with Scoble and look to interview some of the trendsetters […]

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