Category: Business
Gotta Be the Shoes, and That Might Be the Problem
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that happen in a basketball game before. As a metaphor for college athletics and college basketball in particular, it’s amazing.
Linky Friday: Adventures in Amazon
Linky Friday this weeks delves into the world of Amazon: HQ2 cancelled, NYC reacts, business, economics, Jeff Bezos, politics, unions & more
A Responsibility to Find New Pain-Relief Methods in Midst of the Opioid Crisis
We need a brand-new approach to relieving human pain. Our existing solutions pack our prisons, sentence nonviolent offenders to life and exacerbate one of the worst and most avoidable tragedies in recent memory.
The Journalists Have Been Hacked
Journalism’s current standards for determining what is publishable are brittle and subject to manipulation by malicious actors.
A Higher American Minimum Wage Is Something We Shouldn’t Even Be Debating
If you’re “too successful” or “too important” to pay your workers a living wage, you don’t deserve to be a business owner, and your business doesn’t deserve to survive.
Senator Warren’s Office of Drug Manufacturing
What I am proposing is a way to increase the supply of pharmaceuticals that are widely used, off-patent, and are not available in the quantities needed.
The History of Crisco, or What I Learned at Berkeley
How Berkeley – and Crisco – informed me that I was done with the technology industry.
Despite Promises, Another Black Monday for the Mahoning Valley
41 years after Youngstown’s “Black Monday” meant 5,000 lost jobs immediately and tens of thousands more to follow, the Mahoning Valley endures another day of 4-digit job loss with closure of General Motor’s Lordstown complex.
Should Employers Be Allowed to Drug-Test for Cannabis in Legalized States?
A murky legal footing isn’t good for businesses, and it isn’t good for folks who only want to hold down a decent job without letting their health get the better of them.
Faux Diversity in Recruiting
Vikram offers free advice to a corporation that knowingly laundered money for terrorists on how they can better diversify their workforce
Should the U.S. Copyright Office Have a Political Agenda?
Not being tied to political and election cycles has helped keep the U.S. Register of Copyrights an apolitical institution. Will H.R. 1695 change that?
Out With The Carriers, In With The Handset Makers?
Are phone makers about to force their phones onto carriers?
Can Walmart Compete (in Streaming Video)?
Ordinary Times regular contributors Mark Krieger (@musepolisci) and Andrew Donaldson (@four4thefire) break down the news that Walmart is looking to launch their own streaming service, and fall on opposite sides when it comes to projecting the retail giants success.
