2024 has begun

2024 has begun

A new year has begun. But I’m not looking forward to it because this year is projected to be a tense and crazy year, possibly even a consequential year. First, we have the Ukraine-Russian war still going on. It is amazing that the Ukrainians have been able to hold off the larger Russians but now…

Relaxing

Relaxing

I’m trying to relax during the last few days left of this year, but I’m still trying to do some planning for 2024. Yeah, I’m being lazy, and I see all of those people who are industrious. So, then I feel like I should continue to keep producing. One of the things I like to…

Greedflation

Greedflation

Still feeling the pinch of rising inflation? Or maybe the prices have remained the same, but the sizes gotten smaller? Economists say inflation is now cooling but the perceptions are not quite there. We still remember the pain of increasing prices and people are looking for presidential alternatives. Fortune magazine has reported that a new…

Milton Friedman’s Profit Maximization Dogma Dying?

Milton Friedman’s Profit Maximization Dogma Dying?

I recently read something that kind of shocked me: “As Joe Biden declared on the campaign trail in 2020, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore!”” The Atlantic, “The Sordid Legacy of Milton Friedman”, Kim Phillips-Fein, 11/13/2023 That Joe Biden quote came from a book review in The Atlantic. So, even the President thinks that…