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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:59:45 EST 10 http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/magazines/fortune/captainsblog/?section=money_captainsblog http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/images/cnnmoney_logo_144x30.gif 144 30 From CNN and Money magazine, CNNMoney.com combines business news and in-depth market analysis with practical advice and answers to personal finance questions. http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/11/01/magazines/fortune/fortune_columnists_bair.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/11/01/magazines/fortune/fortune_columnists_bair.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Columnists are the heart and soul of any journalistic enterprise.The unfettered voices of a newspaper or magazine, they opine, snarl, and otherwise shout from the treetops.The best columnists have a mastery of subject, an ironclad take, and complete command of the written word. As Fortune columnist Geoff Colvin once told me, to succeed as a writer you must grab the reader by the lapels, shake him, and never let him go. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:45:29 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/09/09/magazines/fortune/street_life_911_diary.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/09/09/magazines/fortune/street_life_911_diary.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Fortune looks back at the entries from those jarring hours and days after the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:38:09 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/06/13/magazines/fortune/chris_licht_cbs.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2011/06/13/magazines/fortune/chris_licht_cbs.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog How would going through a near-death experience change you? It's one of those questions that few of us ever ponder or could ever answer until, heaven forbid, it happens. Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:45:51 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/12/15/magazines/fortune/buffett_presidential_medal_freedom.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/12/15/magazines/fortune/buffett_presidential_medal_freedom.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Some day early next year, Warren Buffett -- and 14 others including former President George H.W. Bush, Maya Angelou, and Stan Musial -- will descend upon Washington to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (The date is uncertain right now, apparently contingent upon the schedule of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, another recipient.) This has become a familiar destination for Buffett, who has kept himself in the news lately doing interviews and speaking out on issues -- much more so than he has done previously. Just this Tuesday, Buffett, along with his billionaire buddies Bill and Melinda Gates, met with President Obama in the Oval Office to discuss their Giving Pledge initiative and the economy. What's interesting to consider is whether Buffett's new higher profile contributed to his being considered for the medal (not that this was necessarily a goal of his). Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:37:20 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/12/02/magazines/fortune/Why_Barry_Diller_Left_IAC.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/12/02/magazines/fortune/Why_Barry_Diller_Left_IAC.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Barry Diller it seems has been pondering the future lately. Today he took action. Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:36:53 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/11/18/magazines/fortune/Lazard_reunion.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/11/18/magazines/fortune/Lazard_reunion.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog There are family reunions, high school reunions, sports team reunions -- and then there are investment banker reunions. As in, be afraid. Be very afraid. Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:06:47 EST http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/11/magazines/fortune/UK_US_soccer_BP.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/11/magazines/fortune/UK_US_soccer_BP.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog America's relationship with the U.K. has always been complicated. Start with the fact that our country was founded by religious fanatics who left England because they were being persecuted, and who later fought a guerrilla war to establish a secular state. (Right off the bat, we confused the Brits.) Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:14:54 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/05/news/newsmakers/john_wooden_obituary_fortune.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/06/05/news/newsmakers/john_wooden_obituary_fortune.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Former UCLA Coach John Wooden passed away Friday June 4th. He is widely considered the greatest basketball coach of all time, and many believe he is the greatest coach of any sport. Wooden won ten national championships in his years 16 years at UCLA. A skilled player himself, Wooden is one of only three individuals (along with Lenny Wilkins and Bill Sharman) to be inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame both as a player and a coach. Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:57:29 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/05/24/magazines/fortune/Where_is_larry_summers.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/05/24/magazines/fortune/Where_is_larry_summers.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Observations, questions, and commentary on today's business news headlines. Streetlife IS the Captain's Blog: Mon, 24 May 2010 18:04:28 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/05/21/magazines/fortune/serwer_financial_reform.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/05/21/magazines/fortune/serwer_financial_reform.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Observations, questions, and commentary on today's business news headlines: Fri, 21 May 2010 13:21:07 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/05/19/magazines/fortune/serwer_trading_euro.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/05/19/magazines/fortune/serwer_trading_euro.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Observations, questions, and commentary on today's business news headlines: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:56:33 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/04/02/technology/ipad_review.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/04/02/technology/ipad_review.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog "There's a revolution coming," I said to my two teenage daughters a couple months ago. Say what Dad? It was early February and I had just gotten my hands on an iPad. After playing with it for an hour or so, my response was pretty simple: I want one. "Not until April 3rd," the man told me. Well OK, what's a few weeks -- when you're waiting for the future. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:18:47 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/03/29/technology/apple_valuable_companies.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/03/29/technology/apple_valuable_companies.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog With all the buzz surrounding Apple and the launch of its latest 'it product,' the iPad, you may not have noticed that Apple's stock has been on a run to the moon. Which is pretty much business as usual for Apple shareholders. Five years ago, AAPL was trading under $40; today it's hitting new all-time highs over $230. That's almost a six-bagger in half a decade, an incredible run for a company this size. Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:54:28 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/03/15/news/economy/financial_reform_bill.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2010/03/15/news/economy/financial_reform_bill.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog Washington insiders are all pumped up by Sen. Chris Dodd's pending financial reform bill. They say that it seems to have a real chance to garner bipartisan support. Yippee! That sounds great on the surface, but ask yourself WHY it seems more popular than, say, Obama's health-care bill? Reason is that Dodd's dang thing's got no teeth! Sure the bill has a measure to create a consumer protection agency within the Fed, (even that's controversial) and it would ban bank execs from being on the New York Fed's board. Then there's the real torches and pitchforks stuff, but even here, the bill is fangless. The proposed bill would allow shareholders to have "advisory votes" (say what?) on executive pay. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:16 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/09/14/news/economy/lehman_brothers_anniversary.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/09/14/news/economy/lehman_brothers_anniversary.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog It was around 10 p.m., exactly one year ago today, and I was standing out in front of Lehman Brothers on 7th Avenue watching as the then fourth largest investment bank in the world melted down. As I took in the scene, Lehman employees carrying out boxes under the kleig lights, past the police cordons, some shouting out angrily to perplexed tourists who had no idea what was going on, it dawned on me that the world was going to change. (The last time I felt anything like that, by the way, was when I watched the World Trade Center collapse, seven years to the month earlier.) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:22:30 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/08/10/magazines/fortune/change_comes_syria.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/08/10/magazines/fortune/change_comes_syria.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog "Is it really true that you have falafel in America," an educated, English-speaking Syrian asks me at the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. And if so, he wondered, "what do you call it there?" Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:58:58 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/08/05/magazines/fortune/jordan_success_amman.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/08/05/magazines/fortune/jordan_success_amman.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog "We live in a bad neighborhood," one of King Abdullah's top advisors is telling me. "Sometimes, no matter how hard we try or how much progress we make, political events in this part of the world overwhelm them." Actually, it's even tougher than that for Jordan. They say oil and water don't go together, but sadly here they do. Jordan happens to be severely lacking in both: it currently imports 96% of its energy needs and is the fourth-poorest country in the world in terms of water resources. Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:53:53 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/08/13/magazines/fortune/beirut_lebanon_renaissance.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/08/13/magazines/fortune/beirut_lebanon_renaissance.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog I'm in the northern end of Lebanon's infamous Bekaa Valley (as in terrorists and drugs) in the city of Baalbeck about to enter its dramatic Roman ruins. Near the entrance of the site I see a large colorful tent set up, with music pouring out. I walk in, not realizing that what I've stumbled upon is a Hezbollah fundraising exhibition. But with the photos of smashed Israeli army tanks, weeping Palestinian children and triumphant jihadists that becomes apparent pretty quickly. And if that's not enough, then there's the backroom with the coffin in the center surrounded by photos of dozens of martyrs, as in suicide bombers. Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:43:44 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/05/20/technology/the_end_of_blogging.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/05/20/technology/the_end_of_blogging.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog I'm not blogging as much as I used to. Part of it probably has to do with the job - it's just tough to find the time. (Despite what J.J. Cale might tell you, it's not easy to let it all hang out after midnight.) But I think a bigger reason simply might be that I have literally been Facebooking and Twittering (some say frittering) all my content away! I get a thought, I meet someone interesting, I go somewhere cool, and then snap crackle pop, I put it up. Crazy right? But more than that, what are the implications? As Joni Mitchell might say: "Well something's lost, but something's gained." Wed, 20 May 2009 11:19:49 EDT http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/02/25/news/economy/pricing.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2009/02/25/news/economy/pricing.fortune/index.htm?section=money_captainsblog So I met a magician the other night. For real. As in a guy who makes a living pulling rabbits out of a hat, mostly at corporate retreats and such. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:34:22 EDT