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Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2008, Ted Tyson opines on:

Late, Shamed, and Still Confused

Yes, yes, I confess I skipped writing the last issue. I followed my normal
procedure and gathered official predictions by prognosticators about 2008.
Since I didn’t agree with the Bears (it’s 1929 and start looking for thick trees
on the south side of mountains because they have edible moss) or the Bulls
(who had a belief that growth would come from healthy emerging markets,
even during a U.S. recession) in what was termed a “decoupling,” I ended up
with of note of such an uncertain hedged outlook that it gave me the flu. I
decoupled from publishing. I did enjoy the unrelenting attacks on Greenspan
during January, but even his timorous defense (“I did not make a mistake. Please
do not burn down my house”) was not enough to get a firm, vigorous line of
commentary established. Arguably, wimpiness is still possible here on the last,
grim day of February, but uncertainty is going to extreme ends.

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Volume 11, Issue 6, November 2007, Ted Tyson opines on:

Moving West, Away From Microsoft

We are finally giving in and moving, bowing to Bill Gates’ apparent desire to lease all office space in Western Washington. His recent decision to build and lease 1.5 million square feet of space in Bellevue, Washington has taken rents to insane levels, so it’s on to Seattle. I would utter a curse on MSN, but it’s redundant. The space we’re giving up used to be Microsoft’s legal affairs office — and given their antitrust record, taking the space back should be curse enough.

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