Category: Renewables – Business

To me, the funniest part (if there is one) of the fiasco we Americans are experiencing is that somehow, voters elected a president who has no training in economics to make decisions that are having enormously destructive effects on the …

The U.S. Economy Is in Trouble, but What Exactly Did We Expect? Read More »

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U.S. child labor laws were put into place in 1938 to protect the educational opportunities of youth and prohibit their employment in jobs that are detrimental to their health and safety. But, as shown at left, today’s mass deportation of …

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What has happened to the economy over the past half century?  Well, here are a number of things that are provable: Almost all new wealth has wound up in the hands of the top 1%, which has driven the demand …

In What Sense Is the Economy “Rigged?” Read More »

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An old friend sent me this article that deals with an instability that Team Trump is sewing into human civilization. The real problem of course, is that people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump don’t rely on 401(k)s to provide …

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Recently, we learned about Trump’s practice of charging businesspeople $5 million for an audience with him.  Now, we have the news at left. Morally, America is in freefall.  Is there no stopping this?

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If you run a corporation and you have a penchant for criminal behavior, this is a great time to be alive.

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On average, Americans’ portfolios lost about five percent in the last month. The specter of deeper losses and hyper-inflation looms over us all.

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A reader sent me the rendering at left.  Funny, I didn’t think he knows any more than I do on the multi-national economics of food, which isn’t much. Looking it up just now, it does appear that the U.S., does …

Comment on the Global Food Trade Read More »

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My marketing services business that ran from 1984 through 2008 had very little to do with the food industry, but I suppose it was a small part of the early DEI movement.  Through the first years, when the business was …

DEI in Hiring Read More »

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The suggestion from a reader at left represents the right idea overall, but needs to be rethought. I met a guy from Norway  the other day who talked about his nation’s wealth tax.  In short, it’s hard to become and …

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