This past weekend my family and I went to a local chain restaurant for dinner. As we entered, I was surprised to find the dining room virtually empty given it was dinner time on a Friday night. I was even more surprised to find a lobby full of people and [...]
Bitcoin has made an absolutely remarkable run over the last decade. It may have gone up higher and faster than any other asset class, ever. It was trading under $5000 at the onset of the 2020 covid lockdowns, before running over $60,000 less than a year later. Today, I’d like [...]
A few years ago, I wrote in this space about whether it made sense to buy US manufactured tools and products even at higher prices than imports. Time has marched on. I now wonder about our future as a viable independent nation. By way of example, let’s examine computers, especially [...]
This past weekend I got the pleasure of meeting a man with a very interesting story. While making small talk with him he mentioned he owned a concrete recycling company. Having never heard of such a service, I was intrigued and asked him to tell me more about what they [...]
Regardless of how many times I see it, I am always astounded to find bread and milk shelves laid bare prior to a forecasted snowstorm. In the 40 something years I have lived in the metro, I cannot remember a single occasion when two days after inclement weather I was [...]
As can be clearly seen by the growth of the S&P Index which tracks the performance of our nation’s 500 largest corporations, our biggest businesses have grown substantially bigger over the past 10 years. In my opinion, they are poised for even larger growth over the coming decade. One of [...]
The stock market has been rocked this past week after Chinese property giant Evergrande announced they were on the brink of a total collapse and were likely to default on over 300 billion in debt. While this announcement has certainly impacted its shareholders and creditors, it is also having serious [...]
Something I learned back in algebra class was when faced with a problem, the fewer variables there are, the easier it is to solve. Businesses across our nation face a multitude of challenges right now. Supply chain failures, employment shortages and rising costs are just a few of the obstacles [...]
As an unapologetic capitalist, one of my core beliefs is that competition in business is the life blood of American prosperity. In a free market economy, businesses completing with one another for customers naturally leads to better value in the items and services they provide, and also leads to higher [...]
My son loves video games. His favorite is something called Fortnite. In the game you run around a digital world trying to shoot and eliminate other players the same way I did as a kid in the woods behind my house with nerf guns. The game is totally free to [...]
