Wally Adamchik Speaks at ECU April 14th at 7 pm in Howell Science Bldg. Room B-103.

Wally Adamchik will be in the Howell Science Building April 14th at 7 pm for this public lecture. You won't want to miss this opportunity for inspiration in your life!

Wally is a professional speaker and the President of the North Carolina Chapter of the National Speakers Association. I met him at an NSA meeting several years back and we have remained friends. He will be a guest of the Economics Society and will be speaking at ECU the evening of April 14th. Watch his video above. His web site is www.beafirestarter.com

Moussa and Erroyl.

Here is an old picture of two of the greatest basketball players in ECU history: Moussa Badiane and Erroyl Bing. They were students so Mrs. Parker and I were able to draw close to them as friends. We had them over for dinner at The Chateau Parker many times. They are two of the finest young men I have ever had the pleasure of being associated with. Both are now in Europe playing basketball. God I miss them still.

Weeping tears of sadness. R.I.P. Victor Zarnowitz

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/business/economy/26zarnowitz.html?_r=1

The world has lost a great economist and one of its most wonderful human inhabitants. It is with deep regret that I must report Victor Zarnowitz has died. He was one of the kindest men I have ever known and he did many wonderful things for me over the years. He is in my first book and wrote the Foreword for my second book. He always took my calls when I wanted to discuss the business cycle with him. His whole family was destroyed by the Nazis in World War II. He grew up in Auschwitz as a child. He fled when the war broke out but stayed in a Russian labor camp for 19 months. He uplifted me spiritually whenever I remembered what he lived through and triumphed over. Victor Zarnowitz made this world a much better place. I gave him the nick name "Mr. Business Cycle." He will be deeply missed.

Here is my interview with him from 1997. This interview still moves me.
www.funnyeconomist.com/zarnowitz.pdf