America is Awash in Money

If I used #tags, this one would be tagged #Yup! Nice Things   We're a rich country and we can afford a lot of them. We just choose not to.…

Mini Movie Review

I saw "United Skates" on HBO. It was good. It left me thinking that I don't think I could make it as an African American in this country. The relentless…

Always a Delaware Connection

Here are just a couple of companies that are located in the DELLE DONNE CORPORATE CENTER on Center Rd.
  • Balfour Beatty plc*
  • Baird Mandalas Brockstedt LLC
  • Deutsche Bank Trust Company**
*Balfour Beatty plc is a multinational infrastructure group based in the United Kingdom. ** Deutsche Bank is a giant German lender that in 2017 was hit with $630 million in penalties over a $10 billion Russian money-laundering scheme and is currently under investigation for laundering money for Donald Trump.

“Shareholder Primacy” aka, THE WORLD’s DUMBEST IDEA – Revisited

Groveling to corporations, throwing tax abatements at them and begging them in your city was not the norm prior to the hegemony of "Shareholder Primacy" Before THE WORLD's DUMBEST IDEA became business school orthodoxy, many companies had a healthy interest in their country, their communities, and their workers. In 1970 that was all swept away, and replaced with what we have now - a shitmess.

Bubbles Gotta Pop

When China's real estate bubble pops, it ain't going to be pretty. China's real-estate bubble is the largest in human history, and despite years of warning signs, it has grown…