I have written a lot recently about the Gig Economy. This maybe my last new post and all that remains is a sum of the total. I’ll begin with describing [ … ]

Why is US growth so stagnant? From the great recession in 2009, usually a time of super-fast catch-up growth, it has only grown at two percent per year. Two percent, [ … ]

Every great company is unique, but there are a few things that every business must get right at the beginning . I stress this so often that friends have teasingly [ … ]

I don’t watch much TV. I don’t like commercials, either the shorter form explicitly paid for and selling an explicit product, or those implicitly paid for and selling an implicit [ … ]

The banker in Monopoly has an advantage. As a kid, playing with my sister and her girl friends, being that I was the youngest of the group, a boy and [ … ]

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When enough people are employed to solve a problem, means become ends. People are adept at aligning their principles with their pocketbooks, they persuade themselves, and me, that their programs [ … ]

In earlier posts I  have discussed  the reconstitution of manufacturing and infrastructure rebuilds in the United States. This will be a V-shaped turn its challenges is how to recruit in an [ … ]

I have proposed that large infrastructure programs and a massive reconstitution of manufacturing within the United States is forthcoming and that much of this will be facilitated through ‘gig’ platforms. [ … ]

When I was growing up in the 70s I was afraid of all the things I was instructed to be afraid of. The impending killer bees and another ice age [ … ]