Financial

2 hours of pain and bliss.

Below are some of the more interesting articles I’ve found over the past month. Not sure if it adds up to 2 hours of reading, but it sounded like a good title to me. Why pain? Because reading some of these articles made my blood boil and indignation rage. After avoiding these kinds…

manufacturing customers.

“…the future of business lay in its ability to manufacture customers as well as products.”

That’s a quote from an advertising trade publication from the early 1900’s referencing mass production and the shift from scarcity to abundance. It also struck me as…

there will be consistency.

I look around every day and what I see often depresses me. It’s what I fear is still to come. Consistency.

In the past consistency meant things getting better, people making more money, things thriving. What I fear, and what I see around me are models…

america and her car companies.

This was a sloppy, not-as-coherent-as-should-be post, and so I’ve rewritten it.

We have a lot to be pissed off about. Literally trillions of dollars of (in theory) taxpayer money are being given to corporations to “bail them out.” This after years of…

the laundry list in my head.

Here’s a laundry list of what’s been bouncing around in my head the past few days.

1) Obama likely ran the best campaign in history. From approaching the campaign with a data-based decision making process, thinking through weakness and strengths and…