People are not generally sane or crazy. It’s not a binary thing but more of a spectrum. And our place on the spectrum can vary quite a bit based on all sorts of factors including age, health, stress, and of course, alcohol and drug use. Of course there are some[…] Read On
The latest of Elizabeth Warren’s steady barrage of policy musings is all about how to create American jobs. She begins by decrying how unpatriotic corporate America is, then offers the usual big government solution: create yet another new agency, the Department of Economic Development. Of course. Here’s an excerpt: […] Read On
So much for a business-friendly White House. The feds are going after big-tech over antitrust concerns. The DOJ will take on Apple and Google while the FTC investigates Amazon and Facebook. Is it just me or does that sound a lot like the Mafia carving up old Manhattan? Conspicuous is[…] Read On
This FOX Business column, “Don’t Buy an Electric Car,” got a lot of attention back in 2013, and not all the good kind. Thought it’d be fun to revisit and see how it’s holding up, what’s changed, yada yada. You be the judge. I live in California, home to all[…] Read On
One of the joys of living in the Bay Area is being constantly subjected to one-sided political ideology in inappropriate places like at work, school, restaurants, supermarkets, the dentist’s and what-have-you. I don’t have any hard data on this but, in my experience, every instance has one thing in common:[…] Read On
When a crime is allegedly committed one of the first things police do is check video footage to try to identify the perpetrator. If they succeed in getting a good image, they now have a pretty good chance of IDing the perp, courtesy off big improvements in facial recognition technology[…] Read On
All the polls indicate that capitalism has somehow managed to develop a bad reputation. And when I say bad, I mean bad. Really bad. It’s a real crisis, in my view. And that’s not going to change on its own. Bad reputations never do. They just get worse. I can’t[…] Read On