Category: Business
Corporate Might (Let Them Fight)
From copyright law to banking and ecigarettes, it’s good to have the big boys on your side.
Education and Making a Good Living
How necessary is to go to college in order to make a good living? Are we getting what we are paying for? Who doesn’t need to go to college in order to make a good living, indeed, even to get rich? Those are the issues I explore here while reflecting on Bryan Caplan’s new book that argues for austerity in education and how a friend of mine is doing quite well in business without a college degree.
Rethinking Distribution, Disinviting Theft
We accept the unacceptable sometimes because it never occurs to us not to.
The Undignified Auction
How much should cities even want Amazon’s HQ2? What should be they be willing to pay and do?
The New E-Conomy
American workers are at a cross-roads and our political leaders all seem to be leading them in the wrong direction. What the ‘Amazon effect’ means for the future of labor.
Little Red CoreDEBT
A look at the relative culpability of overly optimistic borrowers for automobile loans.
The Cable And The Stream
In which I am the last person on Earth to discover that cable television is doomed.
Kmart’s Death Without Dignity
Kmart deserves either a good death or second chance at retail life. But looks more and more that it will get neither and that’s a shame.
What Trump has in Common with a Subsistence Farmer
Not paying taxes for 18 years is not necessarily tax evasion
Moore’s Law Investing Strategy
A Princeton professor has demonstrated that you can’t pick stocks that “beat the market.” The future, by in large, is unpredictable. Except one area of the future, is predictable. For a possible investing strategy that relates to that predictable area of the future, read on.
Five Random Lessons from Covering the Theranos Debacle
Not one of which is, “You know, that Jim Cramer is really on to something.”
V for Vindication: Justifications for Piracy and Copyright
Perhaps there is more to piracy than its need to be stopped.
