Epstein Secrets

aranteed by our First Amendment? Or do you just support the speech of those with whom you agree? Nearly two hundred years ago, the French philosopher Voltaire articulated the fundamental premise underlying true support for freedom of speech: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your

witz, looking like a tweedy Marx Brother with his wild nimbus of ash-blond hair, saying that he felt Ha

r. As an early psychopharmacologist, Maupertuis recommended the use of opium to facilitate creative thought and was famously parodied for doing so by Voltaire in his 1752 story in which he is portrayed as the naively foolish Dr. Akakia. The physical law of least action belongs to a set of ideas HOUSE_OVER

imulations, the first few points of the on- going wild dynamical dance that appears to jump randomly fro

ist in the sense of making rosy predictions. But I seem to show that bias in evaluations. I’m two thirds Panglossian. (Doctor Pangloss was the guy in Voltaire’s Candide who said that this is the best of all possible worlds.) I side with the good doctor in that I cannot imagine an improvement to this world o

posed much faster. I set “Usher House” to my earlier libretto based on Poe’s story in about six weeks in 2008 and 2009. “The Canterville Ghost”, on Wilde’s short story, took me about two weeks each, with two months between, Chapter 1: Recollections 1/06/16 14 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010930 for libretto, com

our 2009 Outlook, we are equally humble today about our financial market outlook given the significant uncertainties ahead. Here, we are reminded of Voltaire’s famous words: “Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.” A client with a well-diversified portfolio that is fully inves

th the benchmark index ending the year up 37.4%—a wild swing of 56 percentage points from low to high. U