polka dots

Polka Dots are a classic. Songs were written about them.  Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald sing the same song, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, a sultry blues sonnet. Dresses and bathing suits were designed with fabric of varying sizes and colors of polka…

peers

I read about “peer-to-peer lending” today in The Economist, pg. 6 of the May, 2015 edition. Fascinating. Instead of the bank  mediating between savers and borrowers, they deal directly with each other. In essence, they cut out the middleman- who…