Amazon is the elephant, we are the blind men gathered around it, each feeling a different part and none in agreement with ‘what it is’. I walk around it and [ … ]

November 6, 2017 Political attention often focuses on how governments spend money to reduce inequality, but direct tax systems (not including sales and other indirect taxes) do more for helping [ … ]

Time stamping my predictions for UFC 217 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 [ … ]

Last year, in the context of the political campaign, and Donald Trump’s pledge to get tough with our trade partners, Sherman Robinson, Tyler Moran, and I did some modeling of [ … ]

Google, Facebook and Amazon have direct influence over 80%+ of internet traffic. They own it all, they’ve eaten and now they are digesting. Google, Facebook and Amazon services had 60% [ … ]

A few years back perennial BS vendor Naomi Klein wrote a book called This Changes Everything. She argued, in typically economically illiterate fashion, that the threat of climate change requires [ … ]

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer declared in his closing remarks at the NAFTA renegotiations in October 2017: “I am surprised and disappointed by the resistance to change from our negotiating [ … ]

President Trump is about to decide whether to escalate the pressure on leading trade partners of the United States, at the risk of precipitating more conflicts in the trade arena. [ … ]

Recently I wrote about Amazon acquiring Whole Foods. I live in New York City. After the pundit applause dies down, the layoffs and economic destruction will begin. Here’s where I [ … ]

October 27, 2017 The US government, through its tax system and spending, does the least to reduce inequality among all high-income advanced economies. The US market income Gini coefficient, a [ … ]