The city is a mess this week as the United Nations meets in midtown. It is literally littered with hundreds of diplomats and what seems to be thousands of security personnel. Avenues have been shut down, sections of 42nd and 57th Streets have been blocked and it seems that everyone and anyone is getting some sort of police escort through midtown.
Now here’s the thing: From 1993 until a couple of years ago, I thought all these motorcades and signs of security were cool. Now I find them just annoying. I am no longer impressed that this delegation or that world leader has a five-, six-, seven-or-more-vehicle-long motorcade. Now I wish that they would just leave the city and let things get back to normal.
The sights and sounds of U.N. are just plain annoying and the headaches they cause by tying up traffic just send me around the bend.
Next week will be about hedge funds and HEDGEAnswers, stay tuned…