There is no such thing as a free lunch! Someone pays for everything. Beginning with that truth, today I will discuss the modern world of community growth and development. It applies to all of us whether we live in a major city, its suburbs, or in a rural county in [...]
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 [...]
Lenin once said, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” I believe for today’s economy and stock market; no truer words have been spoken. This is one of the most stressful periods I have seen since I began to watch markets in 1998. There’s [...]
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 [...]
One of the things that was a mitigating factors for our great nation’s founding almost 250 years ago was the level of corruption that had permeated all areas of British life, particularly it’s government. For this reason, most, if not all, of the signers of our Declaration of Independence, supported [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This summer it was announced that Judith Sheindlin better know as “Judge Judy” would be stepping down from her enormously popular daytime show after 25 years of being on the air. While my current job has made tuning into her afternoon show difficult, as someone who was raised on her [...]
This past week, President Biden addressed Congress and the American people to make his case for a 1.8 trillion dollar spending bill targeted at families and education called the American Families Plan. He has proposed to pay for this additional government spending through tax increases targeted at corporations and wealthy [...]
When asked why he doesn’t share his political views publicly, basketball great Michael Jordan famously replied “because Republicans buy sneakers too.” You can agree or disagree with his stance on a philosophical level, but from a purely business standpoint I agree with him that in marketing there is rarely a [...]
