Friday, August 26 2011

Irene is coming

Hell is coming to The Hamptons http://passageweather.com/ I am sailing in the Med these days and use Passage Weather as a sailing web site. Go into this site and track the hurricane, it’s scary! We have a farm in the Hamptons, Luna Farm in Sagaponack. It is a historical farm. I hope it survives. And [...]

Monday, August 22 2011

A better USA just a few “if’s” away

USA is an amazing country. But it would be way more awesome if: -it did not spend half of what the whole world together spends in the military. -it did not have lawyers who leech on business with a “tort tax” adding unnecessary costs to the economy in medicine, patents and tons of other fields. [...]

Saturday, February 12 2011

Assange is not the point, Wikileaks is

It is becoming common for people to say they don’t like Wikileaks because they can’t stand Assange. This is misleading. Few sympathize with Assange as a character. Most of us, myself included, have never met with him. But the issue here is not Assange, his hair or whether he does, or does not have, the [...]

Tuesday, March 10 2009

Should US banks be allowed to lie?

Americans live in a culture of truth. Spaniards are less inspired by truth itself. This doesn’t mean that no one tells lies in the American business world, clearly not the case, or that the business culture of Spain is based on lies, clearly not the case either. But it means that in relative terms truth [...]

Saturday, February 28 2009

Making friends with Russia and China

Russia suffers from Islamic terrorism. China suffers from Islamic terrorism. The USA is involved in two lethal and expensive wars against Islamic terrorism. It seems that the Obama administration is connecting the dots and beginning to deal with China on this matter. I think the same should be done with Russia. If the most destabilizing [...]

Saturday, September 20 2008

Robin Hood Bush?

Yes, we all know that this is the administration that robbed from the poor and gave to the rich and there are countless examples of that.  The most obvious one are the lucrative contracts given to friends of the Bush Administration in Iraq paid for by the US taxpayer.  And this was generally true…. until [...]

Thursday, September 4 2008

Why gas prices in the States still don´t discourage consumers to buy small cars (a video)

In this video I apologize for the enormous pick up truck that I have in my farm in the States but explain that until gas prices in the States don´t approach those of Europe and Japan US consumers can´t be blamed for driving these beasts. In my case the truck is being used at a [...]

Tuesday, July 15 2008

At Whiskey Jacques

Whiskey Jacques is a great place in Sun Valley to go and and listen to live music.

Thursday, July 10 2008

Rawlins, Wyoming

This video about Rawlins Wyoming shows a town whose main lines of work according to a very nice woman who sold me a coffee there are the refinery or the penitentiary.

Mobile Homes in USA

What a paradox to leave Aspen where the average home is $6 million and this trailer park in a place nearby.

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