The years between the 1996 and 2000 were significant in the metropolis of Detroit, Michigan. A stellar community figure - Mr. Kostas Karakostas - after over 30 years decided to give up the radio program at WXYZ. The author and his son - Dino Karakostas - took over for a short time, and then by early 1997, the author was left by himself to carry out the ethnic radio program. However, because of the demand of the listeners the program was extended to a two hour format and it was moved to WCAR. When the program ended at the end of 2000, many listeners started to request some of the programs that...

Pursuing the understanding of finance and economics has been exploding in the last 10 or so years. The emphasis has been on how to make financial decisions and what kind of methodologies one has to use in optimizing them. Of course, when one talks about optimizing, one refers to allocation of resources as well as understanding the risk of that allocation. To be sure, understanding finance and economics for appropriate and applicable decision making in any organization we must also understand mathematics as well as statistics. There are two options here. One is to focus on theory with theorems...