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Time to circle the wagons?

I was reading an Op-ed piece in the WSJ, about “What’s Killing Jobs and Stalling the Economy”.   The May jobs report was bad.  The Op-ed piece, referred to an aspect of the nation’s history, and introduced me to the process called “creative destruction”.  This...

Minimum Wage

There have been protests at the McDonald’s Corporate Headquarters recently.  The protestors are demanding a higher minimum wage.   The problem is that most McDonald’s are owned by independent owner operators and not by the corporate offices.  I found an old...

Quotes

I have random quotes on all of the pages of my website.  They are financial in nature and surprising after years of them being there, finally with the new website I am getting comments on them.   Apparently they were surprised by the fact that some of them were...

Scott

A friend and client of mine passed away last month.  He was important to me as well as this blog as one of the major IT people whose knowledge I respected, I quizzed him with regularity on what was new and exciting to him and what was on the horizon for the rest of...

Website

When I had my website redone years ago I had asked about the view on phones.  The designer didn’t have a clue, IT said not to worry because the phones allowed for resizing.   Then a few years later, I was told that I needed to have a website that was mobile...

Unicorns

It seems that unicorns do exist and they have been around for a while.   A Unicorn is a start-up company valued at over $1 billion, and private investors have put $362 billion over 5 years.  Thus pumping up the paper value of unicorns, the largest being Uber,...

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