The video below calls for folks to invest their hard-earned money in a company that offers a novel concept in retailing: using a robot to pull product from the shelves. I very much doubt that one of these will ever …
Category: Renewables – Business
Iconic Film Moments
Those unfamiliar with the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction can skip this post. For everybody else, the flick was so popular in its day that many readers will recognize the photo here, in which the character Winston Wolf, played …
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It’s Not Inflation When …
Well, technically it is. In economics, inflation is defined as “a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.” It so happens that the inflation we’re experiencing right now is due to the record profits that …
California Is Unique
For some reason, I’m on the email distribution list of “For the Love of Old Houses,” and one thing that this has confirmed for me is the old adage: “The three most important ingredients in evaluating real estate are location, …
Corporate Price Gouging
The United States boasts the lowest inflation rate of the OECD nations, and that rate is holding steady at about 3.5%. Yet the common American is having trouble affording basic goods and services. Perhaps that’s because of record corporate profits, …
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Putting Biden’s Accomplishments into Perspective
What we’ve learned here is that almost half of Americans voters couldn’t care less about the Biden administration’s accomplishments vis-a-vis the environment. Of course, most of Trump’s base will never hear about these victories, or, if they do, will think …
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Ad Targets the Large and Growing Demographic of Morons
Here’s an ad that got my attention: Fireproof your home with Neroshield’s anti-fire coating (which will) keep treated components of your home from contributing as a fuel source for a fire, and it is effective on wood, drywall, textiles, steel, …
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Jeff Bezos and Union-Busting
Bezos, worth just shy of $200 billion, has realized that union-busting is of critical importance, and is suing to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board. Huzzah.
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Biden and the Working Class
We need to ask ourselves, once again, how it’s possible that working class people don’t support Biden overwhelmingly. Yes, they are frustrated that their wages have stagnated. And yes, frustration leads to anger, and anger is what gets demagogues elected. …
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The Plan to Destroy the American Economy
Most commenters on this meme here report that “it’s already in full swing.” One might think that the appeal of this conspiracy theory would be limited to the completely uneducated, but that’s not true; an old college friend liked this …
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