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The Most NYC Albums That Didn't Make Our Most NYC Albums List
A couple weeks ago, for our cover story, we attempted the impossible task of ranking the 50 Most NYC Albums Ever. It was a monumental job, much harder than, say, the math problem Matt Damon solves on that MIT chalkboard in Good Will Hunting. But we did it. Though some of you disagreed with our choices, we got it done and -- no exaggeration here -- the city is a better place for it.
But we had to leave a lot of worthy albums off the list. (That's how lists work.) So consider the following numbers 51 through whatever. See if your favorite that didn't make the cut is here. We didn't try to rank them this time. We learned our lesson.
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Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (2013) After Light Up Gold came out early last year, it was hard for those who knew about Parquet Courts to hear the words "Ridgewood, Queens" without cueing up "Stoned and Starving" in their heads ("I was walking through Ridgewood, Queens/ I was so stoned and starving"). For a few guys from Denton, Texas, Parquet Courts thrash fast and loose with punk tropes straight out of the L.E.S. circa 1977, except they crowd-surf at Death by Audio instead of CBGB's. Like true New Yorkers, they call it like they see it, flatly deadpanning lyrics about the shitty economy, "adults" that don't know any better, and even those ever-present piles of trash, driving the point home with wiry, eviscerating guitars. -- Harley Oliver Brown
Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980) In 1975, James Wolcott wrote in our pages that Talking Heads were "one of the most intriguingly off-the-wall bands in New York.'" Five years later, with Remain in Light, they proved committed to spontaneity, moving from their "neo-Velvet" beginnings to an afro-beat disco record, an early fusion of dance and rock music that formed the roots of what we still think of as cosmopolitan sound. Though Remain in Light was ostensibly David Byrne's attempt to step away from the spotlight, the album revealed his greatest talent: a preference for inclusion, the ability to collect and curate the contributions of disparate artists and to reveal the thin lines between cultures and genres that the city's density has always helped make irrelevant. -- Jonah Bromwich
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely (1958) Old Blue Eyes was 43 and deep into his second act when he and arranger Nelson Riddle recorded Only the Lonely, the best and most somber of his 1950s "concept albums" for Capitol Records. Nicholas Volpe's painted cover showed a Sinatra in tear-stained clown makeup, which might've seemed mawkish if not for the way it cut against his insouciant image, or if the LP hadn't arrived so hard on the heels of his divorce from Ava Gardner. Come Fly with Me, released only eight months earlier, felt a lifetime removed from this set of closing-time torch songs -- "Angel Eyes," "It's a Lonesome Old Town" -- featuring the most schtick-free, most expressive singing of Sinatra's career. In later years, he'd cite this album as his favorite. -- Chris Klimek
Agnostic Front - Victim in Pain (1984) The eleven songs on 1984's Victim in Pain, arguably the best New York hardcore album, are Agnostic Front's greatest. Picking up where the band's United Blood EP left off, the lyrics on Victim in Pain by Roger Miret reflect the rather sleazy, transient and dangerous life on the Lower East Side in the early '80s. The band formed around the A7 Club in the East Village and quickly attracted critics who labeled them fascists and skinheads, lead by punk zine Maximumrocknroll -- all claims the band denied. But A-F also fostered the punk scene at clubs like CBGB's after bands like Blondie had moved on, mentoring new bands and musicians, who cite Victim in Pain as one of the blueprints for the New York hardcore sound. - Nick Lucchesi
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013) "The wisdom teeth are out," Ezra Koenig coos on the third track of Modern Vampires of City, and the words carry weight because Modern Vampires of the City is the last installment in a trilogy. It constitutes a milestone so significant in the lifecycle of the band that they announced its arrival in the "Notices" section of the New York Times. They shed their madras shorts and polo shirts for this album, and instead of campus flings, Koenig and company are concerned with loss ("Hannah Hunt"), death ("Diane Young"), and God ("Ya Hey"). It is a tribute to the city, sure (look no further than the haunting Neal Boenzi photograph on the cover for proof of that), but more so it's a tribute to the stamp that the city leaves on those lucky enough to spend their formative years here. -- Tessa Stuart
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Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996) Jay-Z's debut album could have very well been ripped from the minds of Scorsese or De Palma with its gangster bravado and illicit chaos. As much a protégé of Biggie as he was his contemporary, Jay-Z had an uncanny ability to breathe dimension into gritty rhymes with his quick wit and lyrical dexterity. But real Gs move in silence and unlike his peers, Jay was markedly the quiet hustler, never quite removing the veil even on introspective tracks like "Regrets" and "Can I Live" ("It gets tedious / So I keep one eye open like, C-B-S/ Ya see me stressed right? Can I live?"). Amid a remarkably prolific career that has spanned nearly two decades, Reasonable Doubt is still considered Jay-Z's magnum opus (and not even bringing the Nets to Brooklyn can top that). -- Sowmya Krishnamurthy
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Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985) "New York is like a big ship, and the water's on fire." Those are the words of a man who was never quite comfortable in New York; Waits fled the city for his native California less than two years after he arrived. But 1985's Rain Dogs, which Waits has called an album about "the urban dispossessed," still smells and tastes like a certain version of the city. It's about late nights on rattling half-empty trains, the lights dimming wearily over Broadway or flickering in the hallways of seedy, falling-down welfare hotels, passing drowsy, beautiful streetwalkers on the corner and sneaking pulls of whiskey in the back pew of some nameless church. In other words, yeah, it's about a New York that's been glitzed over and destroyed, and is no less beautiful for being completely and irretrievably gone. - Anna Merlan
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded (1987) Defining rap in the year 2014 is pretty much an impossible task. The genre has evolved into something great--we've all found ourselves attempting to speak the great language of Swaghili--and it's a wonderful world in which we live. But we had to start somewhere--and that somewhere is Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded. In our own paper, Robert Christgau only gave the record a B+, but from the album cover full of gun imagery and the record's slippery beats, it went on to define the next decade of rap. Without these dudes, we wouldn't have Chief Keef. We wouldn't have Biggy. We wouldn't have Pusha T. So in short, without this record, we lose a lot. -- Eric Sundermann
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (1983) You know when you see that person walking down the street on a sunny day in New York and they're cheery and happy and probably skipping and doing some other stuff that will annoy you because if you're reading about music you probably are live a miserable life? Well, they're humming a Cyndi Lauper song, and their life is better than yours because of that. This seminal album shaped a genre of pop music, and made it okay to feel happy about your life while listening to music that was also kind of nostalgic and sad. Plus, name a song on She's So Unusual that wasn't a hit. I'll save you some time: you can't. -- ES
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele (2000) Conventional wisdom states that Supreme Clientele is far and above the gem of the second wave of Wu-Tang solo albums. And sometimes, conventional wisdom is such for a reason. Supreme Clientele indeed occupies a very specific space in the Wu-Tang discography. The album is front-to-back amazing and as bizarre as you could hope, from Ghost cutting the best song on the thing ("Saturday Nite") off halfway through, to him copping to fucking his own fans on "Mighty Healthy" to RZA's beat on "Stroke of Death," which centers around a single ominous scratch being run continually back. Written largely during an extended trip to Africa by Ghost and Executive Producer RZA, the album was a lyrical turning point for Ghostface, menacing at times, silly and downright psychedelic at others. It was one of last battle cries from a dying empire, proving that even late in the game Wu-Tang still had one undefeated champion. - Drew Millard
GZA - Liquid Swords (1995) GZA's always had a way with words, and on 36 Chambers his wit and slurred, somewhat-muted delivery made him stand a bit taller than the other MCs in his Clan. That album served as an amuse bouche for Liquid Swords, GZA's deft main course, which revealed in one fell swoop that most other rappers, comparatively, had lyrics as weak as clock radio speakers. How good is the album? So good it might even convince you that skits between songs don't suck. Of course, it helps when said skits include Shoguns being decapitated and a Samurai imparting knowledge to his son while still an infant. ("Chooooose the ball...") Add to them the unforgettable cover art--DC-Milestone Comics chief Denys Cowan packing every Wu-cliche (martial arts, chess, neck protecting and the lack thereof) into one stunning and brutal illo -- and GZA's always impeccable rhymes, and what you have is an instant classic, one the MC is now paid real American dollars to play live in its entirety. "Liquid Swords," "Duel of the Iron Mic," "Living in the World Today," "Labels," "Cold World": The album seldom misses (we could do without "B.I.B.L.E."), and when it hits, it kills. -- Brian McManus
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Run-DMC - Raising Hell (1986) The first rap album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and arguably rap's first full-length masterpiece, Raising Hell changed the way the world heard hip-hop. A mere seven years after the genre's first single was committed to wax, Run-DMC proved what was still being written off as a "fad" had the potential to truly become the next greatest innovation of 20th century American music. While "Walk This Way" fully bridged the gap between rap and the pop-rock world by making an old standard new and exciting again (revitalizing Aerosmith's career in the process), it also showed how memorable rapping at its most masterful could be. While rap will likely always remain a single-focused medium, Raising Hell proved not only could album-minded hip-hop be done, but could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the efforts of any genre. -- Chaz Kangas
Kiss - Destroyer (1976) Something's missing in music today. Sure, we have rappers who deck pretty much every single limb of their body out in gold, but man, KISS were something else. Make-up. Leather. Platform shoes. These bros looked like straight-up CLOWNS, and somehow were the sexiest motherfuckers alive. Destoryer is classic New York. Yeah, yeah. The first song is called "Detroit Rock City," but god damn, there's nothing more New York than blending flamboyance and swagger. -- ES
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973) During the first half of the 1970s, Stevie Wonder released a handful of records that redefined the Motown sound of that decade. Innervisions epitomizes that era, charting three singles that typified the album and showcased the sweep of the brilliant R&B musician/bard's sonic and lyrical range: "Higher Ground" (uplifting funk), "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" (love balladry), and "Living for the City" (social commentary). Like every song Stevie Wonder ever recorded, the first two are superbly rendered. With its stunning narrative arc, "Living for the City" is another matter entirely: an eight-minute opera whose pop-hooky first half gives way to a spoken interlude in which the protagonist, "born in hard-time Mississippi," comes of age and journeys northward (by bus, of course) to the Big City -- "Wow...New York...just like I pictured it...skyscrapers and everything..." -- a move that can, and does, only end badly. It's a flat-out masterpiece. -- Tom Finkel
Unsane - Scattered, Smothered & Covered (1995) The skateboarding wipeouts depicted in the music video for the song "Scrape" may have gotten the most notoriety for this noise-rock trio, but everything else on this album is fully worthy of your attention. Unsane's third album was a caustic, stripped-down affair that was sheer noise punishment. Their label, Amphetamine Reptile, made its name by putting out some of the noisiest affairs in heavy music, and this was no exception. - JR
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991) A Tribe Called Quest's second album closes with "Scenario," a rambunctious rhyme-for-all that's powered by a ramped-up rowdy beat, features a show-stealing turn by Leaders Of The New School's Busta Rhymes, and is in with a decent shout of claiming the spoils as rap's greatest ever posse cut. Before that though, Q-Tip, Phife and Ali offered up 13 songs that dwell in a dark and dusky zone, with tracks crafted around the pared-down formula of deep bass loops and canny drum breaks. Over Tribe's most seductive sonic concoction, the raps spew forth with an air of effortlessness: Stream-of-conscious tinged verses from the Abstract interplay lovely with Phife's peppy sports-referential raps, while both MCs check their egos and personal problems at the door to rhyme back and forth in a voice of unison. And in "Check The Rhime," Tribe coined a joyful rap anthem guaranteed to leave a perma-smile on the listener's face, complete with a video that has them coming live from Linden Boulevard. - PM
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Helmet - Meantime (1992) The rhythmic, syncopated guitar riffs and gruff screams of band leader Page Hamilton made Helmet a big hit in the era of grunge. Helmet carved out their niche by eschewing both the over-the-top hysterics of traditional metal acts and tough-guy posturing of traditional hardcore acts. The quintet bridged the gaps between metal, hardcore, and grunge by indulging in a sound that (for better or worse) hugely influenced the nu-metal bands that would be all the rage later in the '90s. - JR
David Johansen - David Johansen (1978) For one fabulous, multicolored moment, David Johansen was the rockin' Mayor of Manhattan. He lead the deliciously disreputable New York Dolls and dated sexy scenemaker Cyrinda Foxe. Both unions ended faster than a great forty-five. Johansen, seriously banged up, then made a record that captured every moment. From being crowned King to being beheaded. Whether strutting his skinny butt on "Funky But Chic," waiting for work, on "Lonely Tenement," or lamenting lost love in "Donna," Johansen made maybe the most muscular, uncontrived "concept" albums ever. He calls to Levi Stubbs. He cries out to The Ronettes. He wonders what the fuck happened? Still, King David elicits emotion without a scintilla of self pity. Hey, he's a Noo Yawka, baybee! -- Peter Gerstenzang
EPMD - Strictly Business (1988) Eric Sermon raps like he looks, half asleep. Parrish too: smooth, but with palpable hints of undeniable anger. And it was often that odd combo that made EPMD (Eric and Parrish Makin' Dollars) such a unique and exciting duo, the two finishing one another's sentences in the Beastie mold, but with a finesse the trio lacked. On their 1988 debut, Strictly Business, they managed many a miracle, not the least of which was turning a sample of Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like an Eagle" into the backbone of a viable rap track on "You're a Customer." But the whole album soars, and on top of the aforementioned "Customer," "Strictly Business," "You Gots To Chill," and "Let the Funk Flow" are all break out songs. Even the silly would-be dance craze that never was, "The Steve Martin," was unabashed fun, laying down the law for how Otis Redding samples should be utilized in hip-hop. "Time keeps on slippin'," but Strictly Business remains vital. -- BMc
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (1993) When former Carnivore frontman Peter Steele formed his next project, he decided to slow it down and ended up putting out one of the finest pieces of Goth-oriented metal ever laid to tape. While a few traces of his hardcore background would pop up here and there, Steele mainly embraced wrist-cutting dirges on fan favorite songs such as "Black No. 1" and "Christian Woman." His deep booming vocals and thunderous bass ended up resulting in one of the most enduring sounds of that era. - JR
Mink DeVille - Cabretta (1977) Could Lou Reed, Van Morrison, The Drifters, John Lee Hooker and Doc Pomus all hang in the same room without killing each other? For one crazy moment in Manhattan they did-kinda. They were really different guys, lead by a pompadoured poet named Willy DeVille. While his CBGB compatriots were playing faster than light, Willy and his band, reminded everyone that our town could encompass the sweet soul of Mixed-Up, Shook Up Girl, the chooglin' boogie of Cadillac Walk and The Velvet Underground-if they were Latin. Mink DeVille steal every note in New York that isn't nailed down. But damn, this town is full of thieves. No reason they can't make records. -- PG
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Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle (1973) Before Bruce became Rock's most adored religious icon (The Pope in skinny jeans), he was ours. And when not bopping down the boardwalk, he gave listeners the most striking images of New York in decades. On Incident On 57th Street, Bruce shot tenements, churches, gangs and guns, in ways Warner Brothers would've killed for. But Bruce really sealed the deal, though, with New York City Serenade. Swathed in strings, decorated with Doo Wop, he filmed indelible scenes of corner boys, trashmen, jazzmen and hookers. Meaning, he gave Manhattan a gorgeous, much-needed Rock 'N' Roll makeover. If Jimmy Cagney wrote songs and had a band? It might've sounded just like this. -- PG
Eric B & Rakim- Paid in Full (1987) Paid in Full is hip-hop's essential document, the reason the rappers you already love began rapping in the first place, and rapped the way they did. It's also the source of some of the most frequently quoted lyrics in all of hip-hop. With Eric. B providing a brilliantly sourced backdrop, Rakim transformed Paid in Full into a collection of indelible songs, with the most versatile rhymes ever spit, including what is still, arguably, the greatest line ever written in rap, on "My Melody." Rap it with us: "I take seven MC's put 'em in a line/ Add seven more brothers who think they can rhyme/ It'll take seven more before I go for mine/ Now that's 21 MC's ate up at the same time." From the snarling opener "I Ain't No Joke" to the iconic opening lines and scratching tutorial of the title track, Paid in Full was the first golden age album that sounded fully formed, containing all the essential ingredients that came to define rap. -- JB
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) Chuck D once famously said rap music is "CNN for black people." He just happens to be the guy who made the album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, that proved it. Nation of Millions is like graduate level course in black history, black nationalism and black revolution: Farrakhan, Chesimard, Garvey, and a host of other leaders (Barkley!) get name-checked from Chuck's podium at the head of the class, over Hank Shocklee and Carl Ryder's bold and innovative production. The album won our Pazz & Jop poll in '88, and in the issue that year Robert Christgau wrote it's "the bravest and most righteous experimental pop of the decade." Turns out, that remains 100-percent correct. -- BMc
Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer (1977) Escape Artist would finally find Garland Jeffreys a wider audience four years later, but Ghost Writer gets the nod on this list as the pride of Brooklyn's New Yorkest disc, from the self-baring title cut to the vivid "35-Millimeter Dreams" to the anthemic "Wild in the Streets" and the West Side Story-esque ballad "Spanish Town." Despite moderate acclaim, this funky pop singer-songwriter has never received his due. And that's our loss, because Jeffreys is every bit as hooky and infectious as, say, Graham Parker, his pub-rock peer from across the pond. "I used to live down on Ludlow Street, 1964," sings the "Ghost Writer." "Then I was so innocent, but now I know the score." And you believe in your soul he did and he was and he does. -- TF
LL Cool J Radio (1985) Bursting onto the scene like a guy who knew he was poised to become a hip-hop legend, Kangol-hat wearing, Queens native James Todd Smith (better known as Ladies Love Cool James) rocked every kind of bell when he dropped his debut album Radio on Def Jam in 1985. Using minimal beats and scratches that were infamously "reduced" by future producing guru Rick Rubin, the callow yet utterly confident Smith (who was just 17 at the time of the album's release) injected the rap world with swag way before anyone knew what the hell that meant. Radio is littered with boombox anthems -- "I Can't Live Without My Radio," "Rock the Bells," "I Can Give You More" - that showcased LL's knack for witty, simplistic and effective rhymes. Ushering both Def Jam's reign as the premier hip-hop label and Smith's eternal rep as the genre's studliest b-boy, Radio gave ghettoblasters all over this great land their own signature soundtrack. -- Craig D. Lindsey
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Anthrax- Among The Living (1987) Bay Area acts Metallica, Megadeth, and Exodus all put out seminal works in the thrash genre. Anthrax proved the East Coast could thrash just as hard and heavy. The intense double-bass drumming of Charlie Benante backed tasty riffs put together by the guitar duo of Scott Ian and Dan Spitz, with vocalist Joey Belladonna having the finest vocal performances of his career. While the aura around their brand of metal wasn't as dour and serious as Metallica and Megadeth, these thrashers proved they could get just as much of a vicious mosh pit going with classic tracks such as "Caught in a Mosh" and "I Am the Law." - JR
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly (Original Soundtrack) (1972) We lost Curtis Mayfield far too soon, but we'll always have Super Fly. If this were a list of Most New York Films, Shaft would get the nod over its little blaxploitation brother. But whereas Isaac Hayes's soundtrack for the former was merely a perfect match for the celluloid, Mayfield's musical accompaniment far outshone the movie to which it was matched. Fronted by the Chicago soul crooner's unparalleled falsetto and backed by fearsomely funky arrangements, "Freddie's Dead," "Pusherman," "Superfly," et al. comprise a '70s soul collection for the ages, as the album's endurance through the years has borne out. --TF
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The Computer Science Scholarship Committee, which is comprised of computer science faculty representatives, awards the computer science scholarships. The Computer Science Scholarship Committee evaluates all applications and informs students of the results.
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Applicant must be a graduating high school senior with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher and must meet all other admission requirements for the University of Houston and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
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Most investors think a good business idea equates to a solid long term investment. While this is true on balance to some degree, many people don't understand that stocks trade in a market and like all markets things are marked up and go on sale for many different reasons, not all of them rational or honest. Indeed, in many markets items are overpriced or sold below wholesale cost because of supply and demand factors. The stock market, despite what efficient market theorists believe, is no different at all. If a certain large trader for a bank or hedge fund wants to mark the tape and "make" a stock he is long or short move in a desired direction the trader can simply push the stock where he wants it to trade. If you are in cohorts with other major players in the market, this type of market manipulation is as easy as third grade math. When ABN and Fidelity decide that XYZ should trade for X one of the institutions simply places the bid out there and the other institution can move in behind the bid with more buy orders to "beef up" the tape even if that institution doesn't really want the stock in question. While this type of "bad boy" trading is technically illegal, it happens all the time and in just about every equity imaginable. What astute traders have to learn is how to decode a "promotion" or a "pool" in order to find out when the party ends and the stock in question is going to blow up.
With web 2.0 names, the key is to stick with the smaller players and trade from the short side. Wait until the issue becomes extremely overbought on all chart time periods from the 5 day to the one month to the one year and short small amounts with tight stop losses. When a bubble finally pops, you have to be in it to win it from a short selling perspective and a bunch of tiny losses can be made back and profits reaped by holding short with tight stop orders in place.
Another technique is played out using options. Many shorts find an overvalued and over-hyped pump to short but constantly get stopped out right before a massive crash. The traders in these think that nothing can be done to short such momo darlings and give up with losses because they either lack the time or discipline it takes to trade with the trend in the stock. Waiting for the right entry point is key, but another strategy is to buy call options in the same notional amount as the shares you are shorting. For example, you may think Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is going to blow up so you short 1,000 shares and buy 10 slightly out of the money or in the money three month out call options on CRM as a hedge. If the stock moves higher, you can sleep easy knowing that the call protects your risk and that your max loss on such a position is around 5-7% depending on your strike price.
Here are a few stocks that may make decent short positions if the summer doldrums return or "sell in May and go away" returns to the stock market.
Pandora (NYSE:P) is a fantastic business, but the stock is pretty expensive and the momentum has all but left the building as far as the tape is concerned. Investors who are long P should sell calls against their position to lower their overall cost basis. If you are bearish on the overall stock market, selling a bear call spread on Pandora makes sense. One way to short P synthetically using a bear call spread would be to sell the $8 calls and buy the $12.50 calls on the stock as a hedge. Additionally, bearish traders could buy an $8 call option on P and short the stock in the same amount. Pandora's revenues and traffic are in super-growth mode but the stock price may already reflect a very rosy outcome for the company.
YELP.com (NYSE:YELP) -- claims to be the yellow pages of the internet, but the only problem is that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is doing a good job with Android phones to make all of these type of services obsolete. With Google smart phones you can simply Google the name of a business and get reviews and a phone number in seconds and if you click on the number you can call the business instantly without even having to dial the phone number. I don't know what is more convenient than that and I fear that Yelp is swimming in the shark-tank from a competitive advantage point of view. Hopefully, I am wrong because I like smaller web companies a lot and I think Yelp is a great service. In the end, however, a great service or great product does not guarantees investment success. Just ask all of the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:GMCR) investors who bought that stock at $110 a share. Look, the coffee tastes just as good now as it did then, but the stock has lost some 50% of its value because it was overpriced and is now priced more rationally by the marketplace.
Angie's List (NASDAQ:ANGI) -- I finally entered into a sizable (for me) short call position on Angie's List because the valuation doesn't make sense to me. The web 1.0 companies like TheStreet.com have as much web traffic as Angie does yet their valuations are some 1/12 of ANGI. To me, this suggests that ANGI is a bubble even though the web site is growing and extremely useful. In other words, with ANGI investors are paying $870MM for what I believe to be a $200MM company at best.
Saleforce.com -- Another revolutionary business model that doesn't make sense as a public security at this price is Saleforce.com. More specifically, CRM stock -- the company is trading for a mind blowing price to earnings, book value, and cash flow multiple yet the business is growing at a 38% top line growth clip. Unless revenue growth translates into bottom line profit fairly soon, I expect CRM stock to return back to Earth at some point in the not too distant future. Selling a May $160 call option and buying a May $170 call option as a hedge makes sense to me.


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Many American Catholics are deeply concerned about business, and especially about large corporations. Readers of America have posted comments online: "Today's businesses, especially large corporate businesses, focus on one thing, and one thing only…the Profit motive," and "The maw of [corporations'] covetousness knows no end," and "Capitalism, as it is practiced in the USA, is condemned by Scripture, papal encyclicals, episcopal letters, etc." These sentiments are not limited to spontaneous comments in some late-night debate. Theologians and chaplains raise similar criticisms in the media and on campus. Social justice conferences often focus on the ways in which businesses, or capitalism in general, must be reformed if we are to raise the living standard of the poor or promote the common good.
Catholic universities find themselves at the center of the controversy. Fifty academics from across the country recently wrote to John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America, urging him to be wary of a commitment of $1 million by the Charles Koch Foundation to the university's new School of Business and Economics for research into the role that "principled entrepreneurship can and should play in improving society's well-being." The organization Faithful America launched an online petition urging Catholic University to "put academic integrity and social justice ahead of the Koch brothers' interests." The petition has almost 33,000 signatures.
The academics and other petitioners seem to discount the depth and diversity of experience and the eminent stature of Catholic University's executives and trustees, who are responsible for the governance of the university, and the commitment of the university's existing academic leadership to the church's teaching on social justice. The concern about undue influence from this particular connection to business may be overblown, but the concern is real and reflects a deep discomfort with business among many university professors.
The Business of Business Schools
Business is increasingly influencing the very size and shape of our institutions. Some Catholic universities now have more undergraduates in their school of business than in the school of arts and sciences. Does the concentration of so many students focused on business careers and the presence of so many full-time business professors and adjunct business professionals influence the mores of the university?
Values are often conveyed through signage. The library at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, my alma mater, bears the name of Francis A. Drexel, acknowledging a major gift written into his will. Drexel made his fortune in investment banking. He was a partner of Junius Morgan, father of J. P. Morgan. Much of Drexel's investment was in railroads—the dot-coms of the day—in the laissez-faire decades leading to Pope Leo XIII's encyclical letter "Rerum Novarum" of 1891. The library has now been serving students and faculty for about 50 years. But what influence does signage have on undergraduates who use this library and so many other buildings similarly financed by profits wrought from business and named for the wealthy patron?
Catholic universities rely substantially on income from endowments that are heavily invested in corporate equities—shares of stock. The top five Catholic universities, ranked by the size of their endowments, held assets totaling just over $11 billion in 2012, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers. The University of Notre Dame leads the pack with $6.3 billion. The top 20 Catholic university endowments total almost $18 billion. University presidents and trustees hope that after-tax corporate profits, delivered as dividends or capital gains, will help them keep a lid on tuition, fund faculty chairs and deliver more scholarship aid. That investment income is no small amount. It is material to the success of the institution. Even with diligent attention to issues of good corporate governance and economic justice, can university investors assure that all is well in every cubicle and factory of the corporations in which they are partial owners? How is the university's responsibility assessed if employees are harmed or customers are cheated by these corporations? Calls for endowments to divest shares of particular corporations or entire industries are not uncommon.
Maybe Catholic universities should distance themselves from business and drop business education. Why subject Catholic institutions to a system that can easily be perverted against the common good, to the detriment of the most vulnerable? Why not focus on educating students for careers in teaching, medicine, government service and other professions whose social benefits are obvious? Why expose our universities to risk that the undue influence of business will detract from their mission? Let me suggest a few answers.
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Catholic universities in the United States confer almost 100,000 baccalaureate degrees each year. The graduates, one hopes, have been schooled in principles of social justice. Some have read the encyclicals and bishops' letters. A few have experienced the solidarity that comes from living and working among the poor, at least for a short time. All of these graduates, whatever their major course of study, play multiple roles in our complex society. The choices they make as consumers, investors, voters and donors have consequences. All of them, and all of us, are obligated to take part, as Pope Francis stated in "The Joy of the Gospel," in "decisions, programs, mechanisms and processes specifically geared to a better distribution of income, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor" (No. 204). This is complex work that requires, among other things, some understanding of business—not so much the technical details of accounting, marketing and finance but the role of business and business leaders in society. Pope Francis speaks clearly about this role. "Business is a vocation, and a noble vocation, provided that those engaged in it see themselves challenged by a greater meaning in life; this will enable them truly to serve the common good by striving to increase the goods of this world and to make them more accessible to all" (No. 203). This statement, by this pope, who sees promotion of the poor as central to the mission of the church, should influence our thinking about the role of business in building the society that Francis envisions.
How much more efficiently might we move toward a just society if every graduate of a Catholic university had an understanding of business—not just the business student but the nurse or social worker and the future lawyer, historian, art critic or priest? There are excesses and abuses in business and in our capitalist society, and Pope Francis has named many of them. There is also nobility, as he reminds us. We need to recognize the differences.
Many of those disturbed by business enjoy the option to choose the computer on which they write their complaint (Apple, Dell, Lenovo, etc.) as they sip their Starbucks coffee or Coca-Cola, drive their Prius, Ford or Honda and wait for a text on their choice of cellphone. They applaud the availability of antiretroviral drugs that combat H.I.V. and hope for a remedy for Alzheimer's disease. The irony is that building a single vehicle assembly plant or computer chip fabrication plant or refinery often requires an investment of more than a billion dollars. Producing a single new medicine may require years of research and millions of dollars in laboratories and manufacturing facilities. What is the source, and motivation, of those billion-dollar investments?
In many cases, those who condemn capitalism or for-profit business also hope that the balances in their retirement plans will grow, that their investments will be rewarded in a way that can happen only by growing after-tax corporate profits. Their objective is the same one that inspires the efforts of corporate-employed 401(k) holders. All of these investors are part of the 47 percent of American households that own shares of corporate stock, either directly or through mutual funds. Many more benefit indirectly from shares owned by their union or municipal retirement funds. This market in publicly traded securities is inextricably tied to the private market of angel and venture investors. Are all these investors worshiping the modern golden calf—money—or are they prudently saving and stewarding resources for a future need? Can our future leaders define the difference? How does this activity promote the common good or affect those at the base of the economic ladder?
Many believe that business and its profits are excusable only to the extent that they can be taxed to fund social programs. But business is the bridge that spans those gaps in wealth and income. That bridge was the route by which a utility plant supervisor left his day job and stumbled through two failed businesses before 12 investors co-founded the Ford Motor Company. Profits in the early years brought wealth to those investors, including Rosetta Couzens, a school teacher who used her savings to buy just one of the original shares in that company. Today, two million Americans work in the automobile industry. That bridge led two bicycle mechanics to spend their summers on a windswept beach and launch the world's aircraft industry. Business was the route by which a sharecropper's grandson became chief executive officer of a major financial firm; a fellow with a coffee shop in Seattle built a company that pays fair trade prices to coffee farmers in Africa; and the son of a plumber brought iPods, iPads and iPhones to the world. Business built the enormous wealth of Francis A. Drexel, which funded not just a library but also the lifelong works of his daughter, St. Katharine Drexel, her Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and others who brought education to people of color and Native Americans in a time when these groups were considered outcasts.
Gaps in income and wealth cause frustration, anger, even outrage. They have produced riots in this country and revolution in others. Widening gaps are evidence of societal failure. Many believe wholeheartedly that the wealth of the 1 percent causes the poverty of the 16 percent. But the wealth of Francis Drexel in the 1800s, or Henry Ford a century ago, or the modern wealth of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett did not cause the poverty of others any more than the graduate degree of one person causes the illiteracy of another. These are not zero sum equations. The wealth of one, if invested in the risky business of new products or processes, provides a job and possibly 100,000 jobs for others. Yet many graduates condemn the very economic system that has helped lift a billion people out of extreme poverty over the past 30 years.
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Building a more just economy for the world might well begin by understanding the world's largest economy. "Centesimus Annus," Pope John Paul II's encyclical letter (1991) on the 100th anniversary of "Rerum Novarum," states: "The church has no models to present; models that are real and truly effective can only arise within the framework of different historical situations, through the efforts of all those who responsibly confront concrete problems in all their social, economic, political and cultural aspects, as these interact with each other" (No. 43). Because business is a powerful force in our society, our graduates need to understand it. Do our graduates evaluate corporate profits in relation to the amount of equity invested and the degree of risk involved? Do our students discuss changes in tax policy that could boost money flows in the nonprofit sector, with no loss of revenue to the federal coffers, or the effect that taxes exert on "the creation of sources of employment"? Do they evaluate new and existing social programs against the standard of "an integral promotion of the poor which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality" ("The Joy of the Gospel," No. 204)? Can our graduates describe with any historical accuracy the largest fortunes of the Gilded Age and what happened to all that money?
All of this is relevant to our graduates because of their roles as consumers, investors, donors and voters. One other fact points to the relevance of business. Most graduates, not only the business or economics majors, will seek employment in the for-profit sector. In less than a decade they will become team leaders, supervisors and managers responsible for the conduct of some part of a business enterprise. The ability to make ethical decisions in any profession depends upon an understanding of the profession's numerous interactions with society. It is so for attorneys and physicians, and for psychiatric and spiritual counselors. How will our liberal arts graduate turned business person, working in a particular functional area or department, ponder an ethical question and present a principled solution without understanding the larger role of business in society?
Career paths in business are as unpredictable as the wanderings of Odysseus. The foreign language major becomes an insurance company executive; the special education major becomes a financial advisor; the hospitality management graduate goes on to become a mid-level marketing manager. In 20 or 30 years, a few from the class of 2014 may be chief executive officers of large corporations or leaders of major divisions. One or two of them may start a Fortune 500 company that does not exist today, thereby increasing and making accessible the goods of this world and creating new sources of employment for many thousands of people. Even in those lofty promontories, they will confront dilemmas that Cardinal John Henry Newman recognized as "simple of solution in the abstract...at different times differently decided," in which he observed, "It is no principle of sensible men, of whatever cast of opinion, to do always what is abstractly best. Where no direct duty forbids, we may be obligated to do, as being best under circumstances, what we murmur and rise against, while we do it."
In social justice work, right moves bring improvements that advance the common good and serve the poor. Wrong moves waste resources and sometimes cause real misery. Catholic universities are uniquely positioned to provide a new generation of graduates, one million of them in the next 10 years, equipped with the authentic teaching of the encyclicals and episcopal letters, a spirit of solidarity and with an understanding of business and its role in society. Reaching out to all, including today's and tomorrow's business leaders, in a spirit of creative concern and effective cooperation would be the best protection a university can adopt to avoid, as Pope Francis put it, "drift[ing] into a spiritual worldliness camouflaged by religious practices, unproductive meetings and empty talk" (No. 207). That would be a powerful rejection of the undue influences that threaten the essential mission of our universities, that of educating men and women who are with and for others. That would be the most effective way to enlist the services of one more noble vocation into building the world that Francis wants.
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I always say today's unethical behavior becomes tomorrow's law. Business leaders would be wise to have a social consciousness that extends over what is simply best for business and what is best for all of society. We are all called to be good stewards with all the resources to which we have been entrusted.
To acknowledge some of the comments, let me agree with the need for a stable legal system, laws that draw a bright line around unacceptable practices, and effective enforcement. That is one part of building a just society. Businesses that survive and grow do so by building a culture that promotes honesty and proper regard for workers and other stakeholders, in service to customers, and that culture is often enforced and strengthened in ways unseen by the public. Yes, successful businesses earn profits, and sometimes generate enormous wealth.
We can trace what happens to all those profits, and all that wealth--information that would surprise many. Knowledge of all that history--an understanding of business, including the good and the bad-- would let our graduates be more effective in building the society that Pope Francis envisions, in whatever career they pursue. Thanks, and may the discussion and the knowledge continue to spread.
I graduated from St. Joseph's, too, just before the asteroid hit and killed the dinosaurs. I don't think most people are talking about eliminating business education. But, I have to say, I know a lot of people who founded successful businesses without having a business degree. They may have taken a business course or two but some people like Gates and Edwin Land (Polaroid) never even got any degree. They were too busy founding a business based on an idea and an opportunity. Business can be a good thing given that it is done within societal limits. It's good to have an elephant in an Indian village to do the heavy lifting, but if it goes crazy and starts flattening huts, you shoot it. I think a lot of us feel that way about big business right now, that it's gone rogue. Business ethics is great, but in any business, the question has to surface, can we afford it? I trust rules and regulations strongly enforced more than the good will of nice businessman. How nice will the corporate culture allow them to be? Isn't external limitation needed to take away the Darwinian advantage for sociopaths?
Business will be always with us as it has progressed since ancient times. It is not a question of affording it, but a question about improving it along moral, social and justice lines without killing the profit motive that is a source of its existence. No one is arguing that businesses that go rogue and should not be brought to justice. The issue is a much larger one. Therefore, what is the solution beyond the criticism?
I have a cousin who was a skilled mechanic, lost his job and pension at Pan Am when it went bankrupt. Remember that airline? He hates big business, and you can understand why. As a result of many bankruptcies and other problems, the Federal government passed ERISA and instituted the Pension Benefit Guarantee Organization. These laws and organizations are not perfect but they represented improvement. Nevertheless, it is one thing to appropriately criticize and another to solve the problem. We don't want to through out the baby with the bath water.
I am a retired senior executive of a Fortune 200 corporation and was a senior partner in a worldwide consulting firm. I applause Mr. Dunn for his most insightful and balanced article.
Some academic and religious scholars, and others put forth arguments that demean capitalism and the profit motive of businesses by pointing to the ethical failures of some companies and senior executives, or even some boards of directors. Somehow they imply but rarely ever substantiate claims that the rich's 1% are the cause of the poorest 16%. Those who chastise U.S. capitalism also rarely every offer any meaningful and practical solutions, or compelling evidence that any other form of of existing world capitalism should be the standard for us or is actually doing a better job in terms of balancing economic profit motives with social justice issues, et al.
I can tell you I have witnessed some bad behavior and decisions by businesses and senior executives over my 30+ year business career. However, I have also witnessed serious and frequent discussions involving business and ethical issues when it came to selecting members of boards of directors or decisions involving the promotion of individuals to senior executive positions of responsibility. I have also frequently witnessed the immediate firing of senior executives for breaches in ethical and business policy.
Our system of business capitalism is a process in development. It is a system that is perfected over time even when it takes a whistle blower to bring injustices and morally illicit decisions that affect the common good to the public's attention. Corporations are human institutions run by people that mostly strive to do good even if their major focus is profit.
Instead of throwing out business education in Catholic universities, we should be adding core courses in business ethics, policy, and moral theology and methodology as requirements for business degrees. This also means courses in Catholic social teachings. However, all the schooling in the world means nothing without a strong faith and reason to apply what we have learned in business school to existential reality. Collectively, we should constantly be striving to improve our business decisions, behaviors, policy and procedures, as well as society's laws and regulations, and the distribution and use of society's capital to limit poverty as much as possible and create more opportunities for people to flourish.
The abuse of the profit motive and capitalism by a few businesses or executives should not deny it to the rest of us who use it responsibly, appropriately and ethically.
Thank you, Michael. As an economist, I sometimes feel despair at the lack of understanding and knowledge betrayed by many when it comes to these topics. Capitalism has been the main engine that has lifted billions of people out of poverty in the world in the last century - even in China, which is walking the tightrope of freeing the economy while maintaining an oppressive political system. For China, adopting some form of capitalism was a matter of survival, and is one reason it is now the third largest economy in the world.
It is not necessary to throw out the baby with the bathwater - as you note. I get incredibly frustrated with those who use statistics completely out of context and with no understanding of economic development. But, misleading with statistics is hardly new!
Instead of throwing out business education in Catholic universities, we should be adding core courses in business ethics, policy, and moral theology and methodology as requirements for business degrees.
ALL business schools should mandate courses in ethics even if not in moral theology, and the scandals of recent years have led to more consideration of this in some business schools.
I, too, thank Michael. Like the majority of my fellow economics professors I have been promoting the free enterprise system for 30 years to foreign graduate students. Our efforts are finally paying off as poverty rates are falling around the world (see recent Economist article). And no, income inequality is not the same as poverty. Think about rising incomes in China and India. Thanks, Michael, for pointing out that people getting richer does not necessarily mean others are getting poorer. And no, crony capitalism of the type that Pope Francis has experienced in South America is not the same as a true free market system.
I can hardly argue with much of what you have to say except to quibble that the Wall Street Journal is rarely in the habit of pointing out ethical shortfalls in business behavior and in fact, has been known to stick with clearly unethical principles and points of view long after they are commonly recognized for what they are. An obvious example jumps to mind on the recent death of Nelson Mandela. If you knew nothing about the man and read the Journal's eulogy, you would hardly know why they were bothering to remember Mandela at all except to point out that while confined to prison for 20 years he entertained the notion of communism. Of course, this example is not of a business, but I think you get the point.
My larger complaint, which goes unaddressed in your well-written, well-researched and carefully thought out essay, is the appearance that the Koch brothers are trying to buy their way into heaven. Upon learning when reading this piece that the Koch brothers are, in fact, Catholic, I was highly offended. (Of course, Adolf Hitler was Catholic, so my surprise is perhaps naive.) How can two people who, in my opinion, publicly spend millions of dollars to spread lies about issues of great import before the common weal, defame individuals involved in these discussions, discredit science and pollute these United States with their business practices while doing so, no matter how great the size and amount of their gift, be honored by a Catholic institution? These men, after all, are two legs shy of being the Magi bringing gifts to the Christ child.
It is certainly admirable that the Koch brothers wish to donate money to Catholic University for a business school that promotes the helpful economic behavior of entrepreneurs. But as Catholics, if not by virtue of their own behavior as inheritors of great and monopolistic wealth, the Kochs embody the dark side of that noble activity and indeed of all of business. To pretend otherwise--say in the public event that should precede the incorporation of their gift, that is, when the honorary shovels hit the ground, great speeches are made, thoughtful benedictions are given and these men in the flesh are honored for their generosity--is most troubling to me.
And, thus, we have brought the scofflaw before the bar. For who better to serve as an example of ethical lapses than these two men, who are perhaps the very personification of such lapses? Now, a benediction that does not try to cover the darkness with a curtain, would be a benediction well worth attending, indeed. Bring it on, I say, and let The Nation hear it.
"But as Catholics, if not by virtue of their own behavior as inheritors of great and monopolistic wealth, the Kochs embody the dark side of that noble activity and indeed of all of business."
Could you describe in particular what business activities of the Koch brothers you think "embody the dark side"? If you're going to make such a statement, it would be useful to actually describe the activities. If, as you are assert, they are running a monopoly, then why hasn't the Justice Department brought an antitrust action against them?
With respect to their spending money "to spread lies about issues of great import before the common weal" - are you referring to their spending money to support marriage equality & immigration reform?
The Koch bros. most likely do not employ many if any minimum wage workers yet hell will freeze over before they would endorse a minimum wage hike that 70% of US supports. Ask yourself why would the Bros.then oppose a hike... that question and answer would give you a true picture of the elite's mind set... Their Fox news talking point is that it would cause workers to lose jobs.. people would be laid off and the minimum wage workers left would be what... pressed or . beaten down to keep production and sales up ? Or would the businesses now with fewer workers forego profits.. Who buys this BS,??? .
Increases in minimum wages reduce job creation and deny job opportunities to workers just entering the job market. It is especially unfair to young minority workers, particulary young men. The economic research is clear on this (check Wascher for summary). They don't get hired and don't get a chance to move up the ladder. Minimum wage increases do benefit existing workers, particularly union members, at the expense of unemployed young workers. Perhaps the Koch brothers are aware of this research. Apparently you are not.
In the fall 2013 USCCB conference, the discussion of the revised rite for marriage had an interesting point. The bishops did not want to give up on " marriage," and did not want to use "nuptial" or another word, which could be construed as abandoning the word "marriage" based on the public debate. The same analogy should be applied to "business." Good, successful, ethical businesses are needed in our country, and on every continent, if the poor are to be served and social justice is to be a lived reality. We are not there yet, and the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review regularly call out business failures, sometimes even "ethical failures."
In his 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI addressed this not just to bishops, priests, deacons and religious, but to the lay faithful and "all people of good will." This encyclical speaks to business ethics and the impact on the poor and those whose human dignity is fractured by the leaders in our society. Let me offer the suggestion that it should be required reading for Boards of Directors and C-level executives of every global corporation. Far more than any decree by the United States Congress or the British Parliament, business leaders can transform the world. Decisions in mahogany-paneled board rooms can and do effect the lives of the anawim in mahogany rain forests. Businesses can effect change on a global basis far more quickly than political entities. Let's not give up on business education. Universities should prudently screen benefactors, just as individual investors ought to do; I count heavily on the ethical foundation of decisions which will be made in the future by business leaders now studying in our Catholic colleges and universities. They can be our future full of hope, and can help bring the joy of the Gospel to broken parts of our world.
Rev. Mr. Jim Grogan, transitional deacon, seminarian, and former business leader for 35 years


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