Sitting Flesh

-Ed Jameson, New Meadows The life I see around me is nothing I want. I want more than to be an employee, or a husband/wife or a parent or a snowmobiler in the winter. I see it all around me, my … [Read more...]

Another God Particle

-From the Desk of Ed Jameson, New Meadows Whether particle physicists can determine they’ve found the Higgs Boson {the new God Particle} for certain is a matter of time. No scientist ever assumes … [Read more...]

Mothers of the World

- From the Desk of Ed Jameson “Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired. My heart is sad and sick. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever…” Surrender Speech in the Bear Paw … [Read more...]

One Moment in Time

- From the Desk of Ed Jameson, New Meadows I want one moment in time when I’m more than I thought I could be. When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away and the answers are all up to … [Read more...]

The Night Train

-From the Desk of Ed Jamison Overwhelming negativity limits any optimism I have for the world economy as we enter 2012! I’m old enough to remember how utterly decimated from war the world was as it … [Read more...]

Psychology of Failure

From the Desk of Ed Jameson, New Meadows One after the other, each southern European country is facing its own financial Armageddon. Whether they survive, depends upon their willingness to … [Read more...]

Tomorrow's Hope

There is a fuzzy period of time (As opposed to a rude awakening) between when the government had stressed to the American people that it is generating a temporary, infrastructure type, jobs program; … [Read more...]

Anit- Capitalism, the Solution?

I make no apologies to anyone for being a Capitalist! Somewhere in the process of living my life I read where capitalism is the most “natural” way to conduct one’s business, and by extension, … [Read more...]

What is America to Me?

What is America to me? A name, a map or a flag I see; a certain word, democracy. What is America to me? The house I live in, a plot of earth, a street, the grocer and the butcher, or the people that I … [Read more...]

World Financial Outlooks

August 26, 2011  From the Desk of Ed Jameson, New Meadows “Financial markets don’t function properly and endanger humanity.” (Paul Woolley, founder of research institute at London School of … [Read more...]

God on Our Side

Is it the “burned-in” permanency of our collective and individual memories of all the pain we have inflicted worldwide in the name of and in the spirit of democracy that refreshes us? And where, … [Read more...]

The Numbness of Loss

On September 11, 2001, the deafening roar of the fires at the remains of the World Trade Center could not have been more horribly surrealistic, than the immediate and shocking realization that how one … [Read more...]

Austerity

Nobody should have reason to question the economic rationale for applying the principles of “austerity” to an economy in “recession.” President Reagan did it successfully in 1981. Again, that … [Read more...]

Respect for All Life

I have never seen an interview on financial TV, of which I’m a daily viewer, of a very wealthy person saying he/she would not be amenable to paying a fair increase in taxes to help our people and … [Read more...]

Only Winning Counts

In business, like in sports, no one person is bigger than the team. Firing someone is almost never “personal,” but not all people are capable of top performance, at the highest levels of … [Read more...]

Human Struggle for Humanity

Parts of this piece are from an article I wrote in 2008. My high school freshman year, 1954, gave me a remarkable history teacher. Miss Jansen came to us with great knowledge and deliverability of her … [Read more...]