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Wow…wow, wow, wow! So, I read two articles that addressed this topic of “woke capitalism” and it seems like that this will be the next “war”. I do wonder if this “war” was precipitated by what is going on in Florida with Disney and “Don’t Say Gay”. I’m not really familiar with the intimate details…

This is the last of a series on the latest articles on capitalism…I think. I might have one more. I started with the history that began with Milton Friedman’s call for profit maximization for shareholders and ending with the fact that shareholders have scoffed up all of the money generated from increased productivity. Next, I…

As economist David Autor (a member of our research team) told the New York Times, “Most people’s fear of technology is really a fear of capitalism, what the markets will do with the technology.” “Automation Isn’t the Biggest Threat to US Factory Jobs”, Wired, Anna Waldman-Brown, May 1, 2022 In the last post, I provided…

Last week, my newsfeed started to give me articles addressing capitalism and how we got here or maybe the impact of American capitalism. Not sure why I’m getting this influx of articles on this topic, but I will use a few posts to go over these articles because they bring up some good points. I…

The “military operation” is still going on and it is dreadful to watch with its indiscriminate killing of civilians. I do try to not doom scroll, but the news is there and I do get tired and anxious. It takes a lot of energy to try to get stuff done – and I do have…

Mazars’ announcement, last week or the week before, that the last ten years of the financial reporting for Trump should not be relied upon and that they were bowing out as his accounting firm was a bombshell. That bombshell reminded me of other financial news in the past, serving me as a warning as to…