I like sci-f. There are lots of good movies, some great and some greater. It’s a hard thing to write, and watch, because small script, directing and acting mess-ups cause [ … ]
Timestamping my predictions. Our next Presidents will be…
I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of how I figured it out, it doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t. If it does happen I [ … ]
My Best of TV list. A No BS review
I usually start reading a TV review at its end and sometimes work my way backwards. My own simple rating system is DON’T SEE IT, SEE IT, WHATEV This bunch [ … ]
Uber Ambulance. Good or bad? Should cities build, buy or lease it?
I’ve written a lot about Uber. I was early to start its post mortem, I didn’t want to wait til its body got cold. Also, I wanted to tap the [ … ]
Where recession ends and balanced economic expansion begins
An economic expansion can die many deaths. They frequently will succumb to an unanticipated, adverse shock. They can die from their own dynamics, from imbalances that sustain the expansion but [ … ]
Economy, Tax. Industry. Market. Wow. How do we win some more?
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul – Daniel Burnham Corporate tax cuts (subtitled fallacies of “paper investments” vs. “real investments) Suppose company 1 [ … ]
Corporate tax cut. OK, and then what do they do with the money?
Pundits are using political hysterics and clickbait worries when discussing the corporate tax cut. Savannah Guthrie, interviewing Paul Ryan on the Today Show, posited for a gotcha with“What they [CEOS] [ … ]
Bitcoin ain’t bling. “If you flashin it, you must not want it” – DMX
“…each competitor has to pick, not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom [ … ]
Timestamped prediction. Survivor: Heroes, Helper & Hustlers
I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of how I came to my guess, because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t. I’d like Ben [ … ]