Paris by the (Children's) Book

As glamorous as it may sound to jet-set across the country, schmooze with clients, and live off room service, just about every business traveler would beg to differ. 

Brenda Jubin submits: Michael Sincere’s All About Market Indicators (McGraw-Hill, 2010) is written primarily for novices, and much of the material is available in other books. But for those who are familiar with basic market indicators Sincere’s book offers something more: dozens of brief interviews with market forecasters, traders, and indicator developers.

Hugo Chavez has assumed room temperature.  I’ve always been taught it is bad manners to talk ill of the dead.  In this case I’ll risk it.  It is a huge boon for liberty and individual rights that Hugo is no longer at the shipwreck he’s made of his country. Of course, there are those who feel differently about a man who had no respect for individual liberty, property or rights:

OTTAWA — Venezuela has sent a formal protest to the Canadian government for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “insensitive” remarks on the death of President Hugo Chavez. Harper issued a statement that offered “condolences to the people of Venezuela,” but not the family of the flamboyant 58-year-old leftist leader, who died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. A statement from a senior Venezuelan government official says a “card of protest” was sent to Ottawa after Harper expressed what he called insensitivity at a time when their country is grieving.

Paris’s Haute Couture collections have just passed along with the sudden flood of well-heeled international clients. Just as the brief season defines a moment to view intricate Savoir Faire via houses like Chanel, Dior, Giambattista Valli and Valentino, it also marks a terrific moment to launch a high quality item. Cameron Silver – often labelled Hollywood’s King of Vintage – took full advantage and flogged his large and well-illustrated tome Decades – A Century of Fashion, published by Bloomsbury.

Davide Pavone submits: In general, the full-service airline focuses on the premium-paying business traveler, whereas the price-sensitive traveler is targeted by the low-cost carrier. Business travelers are considered to be a homogeneous group, and are not segmented into sub-groups. This article discusses business traveler heterogeneity, and argues that short haul business travelers regard low-fare airlines as viable alternatives to full-service carriers.

A month ago I participated in a conference of mostly military officials and national security experts–I was probably the “oddest bird” there–at the Naval War College in Newport, RI.  The title and focus of the conference was “Economics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities.”  I had planned on writing about some of the things I learned much sooner than this, but then the debates over economic st