I enjoy playing a number of sports tennis being on top of them. I also follow golf and cricket. My favorite tournaments are the four slams, the four majors, the Ryder Cup and Cricket matches between India and Australia.
Watching the Augusta Masters tournament in early Spring (on TV) is one of my most favorite things of the year. And there is absolutely nothing like physically being at the US Open National Tennis center for the US Open. Despite not being perfect, Roger and Tiger are arguably the greatest to play their sports and Sehwag is the most destructive batsman since Viv Richards.
I cannot stay away from saying something about politics, public policy and the art and scams of business. I admire billionaires that "spread so much wealth around" - Gates, Jobs, Brin & Page, Yang and many others. But paying hired employees such as the CEOs at some 200 times the average worker for just showing up continues to be one of the biggest scams in corporate history.
What caused the credit crisis? Wrong incentives drove the wrong behavior. The opportunity to make unlimited money at investment banks drove bankers to take unlimited risks with some one else's money. It is as simple as that. Unless we remove these incentives no amount of bail out will help and wall street will be back at its game in no time.
Free markets won't remain free without government involvement. And people get the government they deserve.