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A decade ago, a famous and successful investor told me that “integrity lowers the cost of capital.” We were talking about Donald Trump at the time, and this Wall Street wizard was explaining why then-candidate Trump had so much trouble borrowing money from domestic capital markets. His ...
To the editor: Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States of America will you find the word democracy. James Madison was the primary author of the Constitution and is often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.” He was also the author ...
To the editor: On Tuesday, January 13, you reported that Chancellor Girod announced “market pay” raises for KU’s nonacademic employees. I applaud pay raises, but Girod’s idea of market pay is laughable. The 1% raise he announced pales compared to the current inflation rate: 2.7%. And ...
To the editor: Invading Greenland will be the end of America as a superpower and the end of NATO. This has long been a goal for Putin, and Trump is his perfect stooge. Without allies the United States would be vulnerable everywhere. One reason we are a superpower is because of NATO, because ...
I stumbled across an old menu the other day on social media, one claiming to be from 1937, for the passengers on a German zeppelin crossing the Atlantic. “Breakfast,” it read, “on board the airship Hindenburg.” The words dotted the page in elegant script like a ...
Surely, I have plenty of company in wanting to jump off the Donald Trump distraction express. Rage is its fuel. A weekend isn’t short enough to contain the demands on attention. Just this last two-day break encountered: The cinematic ICE raids in Minneapolis. Threats against Exxon for its ...
