San Francisco       No question that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Bill Gates have made a ton of money from their various businesses.  Both go up and down on the list of richest people in the world, sometime first, but always in the conversation with a gazillion billions each.  But, as the song goes, “money …

Pearl River      The Economist is a conservative magazine masking as liberal, which underlines how confusing the liberal designation in politics is these days.  Nonetheless, an editorial of sorts entitled “Start Writing Checks” under a cutline saying “charity” surprised me.  They were coming down foursquare in favor of philanthropists, largely the megarich, their foundations and giving …