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I have been a professional communicator for over 25 years working in a wide variety of roles and industries including: concert promotion, radio air personality, contributing editor and columnist for daily newspaper, communications director for an employers association and director of marketing and communication for an NBA Development League team.

I am currently working in the health care field as a hospital director of marketing and public relations.

I am a long suffering Buffalo Bills and Sabres fan. My hobbies include collecting books, reading, and music. I am fascinated by business, politics and robotics.

My wife and two children are my life.

I know too much about ...

Music

My parents always told me ...

Hard work never hurt anyone.

My childhood ambition ...

Photographer

Why I write ...

Fear my head would explode if I didn't let this stuff out.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Robert B. Parker, Thomas Friedman, The Italian Job, between listening to everything!

My first job ...

Little league umpire!

My best moment ...

The day I married my wife...when my children were born...corny but true.

My inspiration ...

My family.

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Book reviews: The Big Short, by Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis- The Big Short- Inside The Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton - $27.95) When our current financial meltdown was in it's earliest stages, I distinctly remember asking the listeners of my radio show the question “what are these companies, (that have lost a huge portion of their value) doing differently today from what they were doing yesterday?” The products and services they were providing are still the same, so why has the value of their company dropped so dramatically? The question was based upon the simplistic theory that the value of a company was based on the dema...

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