Amazon has announced its plans to acquire Whole Foods for 14 billion dollars “Amazon has no plans to use the technology it developed for Amazon Go to automate the jobs [ … ]

Amazon is relentless. That is admirable, until it’s not. A bridge gets crossed and the relentless troops storm the other side, which, as it happens, we are all on. Beware [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

One of my favorite reads is the collective commentaries coming our of the Black Agenda Report ‘News, commentary and analysis from the black left’ This is a remarkable post and #FactCheck [ … ]

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 [ … ]