Amazon has a market capitalization of, give or take a few billion amongst friends, $480 billion… It has current profits of roughly $2.6 billion… It has a price-to-earnings ratio of [ … ]

Any nation-state that meets these four requirements is fully exposed to a global loss of faith in its economy, debt, balance of payments and currency. There is only one global [ … ]

Who is hunting down the brick and mortar retailers and snuffing them. And, the killing fields are growing, from 2014-2016, 12,000 stores closed. Detectives estimates that from now to 2019 [ … ]

Theodore Dalrymple writes… Not many people, I imagine, still read Dr. Johnson for pleasure or instruction, though he was once the favorite reading of the educated in the English-speaking world [ … ]

There is something about popcorn, soda and Mom. We used to love going to the movies together. There were months that we saw every major release. James Bond, Mel Brooks, [ … ]

Are opinion polls the 11th plague? What we’ve done with democracy is to assume it’s a measurement of public opinion. When I was young there was quite an argument as [ … ]

Dan Thornton has an interesting essay, “The Limits of Monetary Policy: Why Interest Rates Don’t Matter.’’ Just why do we think that the Fed raising and lowering interest rates has [ … ]

Ah, the companies that care about me, and indeed, humanity, and indeeder, improving shareholder return. What a bettr* world it would be, if they had it their way, which they [ … ]

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has joined the #resistance against Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods. “No employment decreases are arranged because of the arrangement,” a delegate said [ … ]

   Humanity appears to default to magical thinking when faced with untenable situations that demand systemic change. “Earth’s economy glorifies waste. Its economists rejoice when a product is disposed as [ … ]