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Friday, August 24, 2007
WHAT IS JOHN GALT? Seems it's a mob-front construction company! From the New York Times:The John Galt Corporation of the Bronx, hired last year for the dangerous and complex job of demolishing the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, where two firefighters died last Saturday, has apparently never done any work like it. Indeed, Galt does not seem to have done much of anything since it was incorporated in 1983...And of course... in parentheses and "by the way"...John Galt, it appears, is not much more than a corporate entity meant to accommodate the people and companies actually doing the demolition job at the emotionally charged and environmentally hazardous site at the edge of ground zero.
The companies and project managers who have been providing the expertise, the workers and the financing for the job are Regional Scaffolding and Hoisting Company, which is not in business to demolish skyscrapers, and former executives from Safeway Environmental Corporation, a company that was already removed from one contract at 130 Liberty because of concerns about its integrity.
Safeway, its former owners, Harold Greenberg, 61, and Stephen Chasin, 56, and another company they long operated, Big Apple Wrecking and Construction Corporation, had a troubled history.
Mr. Greenberg, of Staten Island, has gone to federal prison twice for crimes related to the industry.
Identified by federal investigators as a Gambino crime family associate, he was convicted in 1988 of bribing a federal inspector to overlook asbestos-removal violations while Big Apple was demolishing Gimbels department store on East 86th Street in Manhattan.
(John Galt, by the way, is a central character, an engineer, in Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged.” The book begins with this line: “Who is John Galt?”)Thanks to Jameson Campaigne for the link.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
LOST IN TRANSLATION ...seen on the campus of Cornell University.
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UNSUPPORTED ALLEGATION Oops. I stand corrected.
I am a big fan of yours and one reason I am is that you will always correct any errors on your blog. Sad to say, but there is a big steel cable holding up that horizontal branch on that tree at Vassar these days. I have only been on the faculty here 5 years, and I was told that the branch was *once* unsupported, but for safety they attached the cable some years ago before I got here.Sean Flynn
Assistant Professor of Economics
Vassar College
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
THIS MUST BE WHAT LARRY KUDLOW IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT ...seen in Dryden, New York.
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FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE ART DEPARTMENT ...seen on the campus of Colgate University.
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STRANGE COMPANY (AND NOTICE I'M NOT QUOTED) From Portfolio.com. Did I ever say anything like this?
Opinion about the wisdom of the central bankers' actions is coalescing into what we will characterize, broadly, as four views...First is the group that thinks that central banks should do whatever it takes to keep the markets afloat. The most extreme and vocal advocate is Jim Cramer, followed closely by Don Luskin...Not only does the author Yves Smith (sounds vaguely French) claim that I said what I never said, but apparently I was extreme and vocal when I never said it. Wait... here's an explanation:
Note that while some commentators may engage in nuanced fence-straddling, for the most part, the positions are well-defined.I guess they are just defined elsewhere. But nowhere to which readers of this Portfolio.com posting can link.
Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 6:56 AM |
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
DO YOU THINK THIS COMPLIES WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT? ...seen in Boston, Massachusetts.
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A COMBINATION OF APPROACHES NOT LIKELY TO SUCCEED ...but nevertheless adhered to in Boston, Massachusetts.
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AHA! THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CONSPIRACY HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AT LAST! ...and of course, it's in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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