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Category Archives: Business Health
Review of the movie “Wall Street: money never sleeps”
I thoroughly enjoyed the latest Oliver Stone movie Wall Street: money never sleeps. I highly recommend it as both entertaining and thought provoking. It is a fictionalized account of the collapse of Lehman brothers and the Wall Street bailout in … Continue reading
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From paper routes to entrepreneur
My dog, Toby, forced me to get my first paper route at the ripe old age of 10. My father, a no-nonsense Naval officer on duty in Washington DC, was against adding a dog to our family of three kids. … Continue reading
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Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, book review
This book is another of my top five in business and economics. Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, by James Utterback professor of management and engineering at MIT, is about the crucial role of innovation in the life cycles of industries; … Continue reading
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Class warfare is alive, well and killing our GDP
Our middle class is shrinking, our GDP is shrinking, budget deficits are soaring and public education is degenerating. Those four things are linked in a downward spiraling feedback loop. However, we can halt the decline and eventually return to widespread prosperity. This … Continue reading
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Thus Cheap Money does make addicts of us all!
To keep their economies afloat, Central bankers, at their annual meeting in Jackson Hole, once again committed to continue or increase the supply of cheap money. However, some of them are starting to recognize that the outcome of their efforts is … Continue reading
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What happens to you doesn’t change your happiness!
If you won the lottery for $100 million would that make you happier the rest of your life? If you suffered an injury that made you a paraplegic would that make you permanently gloomier? Prof. Dan Gilbert of Harvard says … Continue reading
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