Carlini's Comments

The Magnificent Mile sometimes called the Mag Mile is Chicago’s premier shopping and tourism center.  With stores rivaling Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and Fifth Avenue in New York City, it is the destination for world shoppers.  It’s a place where if you are from out-of-town, you go for the premium stores, the highly-acclaimed restaurants and the first-class hotels that provide the full impact and ambience of Chicago, a world-class city.

Thor Soderberg was a Chicago Police officer who was just finishing his day of doing his job in the afternoon of July 7th.  He got jumped and shot just outside a police facility on the Southside of Chicago by a man who some now say is mentally unstable.  They struggled.  The man grabbed his gun, shot him in the head and ran away.  (Later, he got shot and was captured by police.  He turns out to have a lengthy criminal record.)

Toured Racine and Kenosha Museums on the weekend.

Saturday dinner was catered by Wells Brothers.

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Listening to the “experts” explain it off as a trading error yesterday – basically a “typo” – doesn’t wash.  If you know anything about compliance, approving trades, and computer systems, blaming it on a single computer glitch is a stretch.  A REAL stretch.

 

School system administrators don’t need more money for education, they need more education on how to spend money and cut waste.

Deep cuts were inevitable and now we are seeing it happen as the first waves of cuts start trimming away both good and bad elements of schools and government bureaucracies.

With the lack of leadership and visionaries in most municipalities and states, why not look at government from Patton's point of view.

Where have all the real leaders gone? What have our business schools been cranking out in the last couple of decades? We don't need more politically correct, we need politically accurate in decision-making roles.

As more houses become worth less than the mortgage that an owner has to pay, some people are just mailing the keys back to the bank.

These are all things of the past. Where are any places you can get a nickel beer today? How do you text or send a picture on a rotary phone? Two week notices? You must be kidding.

Counterfeiting is a lucrative business from watches, purses and cell phone batteries to even car parts, pharmaceuticals and cabling.

Did financial experts lead the average person into buying into a declining market eight years ago?

Commercial properties cannot be measured with 20th Century yardsticks, they will need 21st century intelligent amenities like broadband connectivity and diverse power feeds to attract and maintain corporate tenants.

It seems like toxic assets go down better when mixed with KoolAid.

Would you buy an 80,000-seat Domed stadium for $583,000?