A very fortunate part of my very fortunate gig is – I get to do a lot of radio interviews. Thanks in no small part to Rush Limbaugh (re-)creating political talk radio – Marconi job opportunities have been created throughout the land. Under the Limbaugh banner are thousands of nationally and regionally syndicated – and…
When the United States government goes shopping for contractors, there is an inherent tension between two competing desires for whom the Feds hire. You’d like to see the gigs go to American companies and people. But you’d like the taxpayers to get the best deal – and that might mean non-American companies and people. But…
There’s a little Internet company known as Amazon (market cap: $919 billion). Owned by a slightly rich guy named Jeff Bezos (net worth: $150 billion). This plucky little Bezos with his plucky little Amazon company – is REALLY good at securing government cronyism…from any and every level of government. While we ordinarily loathe cronyism –…
Donald Trump became President for a couple of fundamental reasons. Immigration was certainly a key component. Building a border wall and enforcing our laws – resonated. Putting an end to the US getting robbed over and over again by nations the world over – in awful trade deals, in Intellectual Property (IP) theft,… – resonated.…
In the great Aaron Sorkin based-upon-real-life movie “Charlie Wilson’s War” there is a brief yet very apt exchange between Texas Representative Charlie Wilson and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos: Wilson: “No, I don’t understand…because I’m stupid.” Avrakotos: “No, you’re not stupid – you’re just in Congress.” In the area of pharmaceuticals and their national and international…
Every intellectually honest person acknowledges government its own self – is a monopoly. Only the government Post Office can legally deliver First Class mail – because government has made it illegal for anyone else to do so. As a flood victim of Hurricane Irma – I can assure you government monopoly flood insurance is…mind-meltingly awful.…
Amazon is the king of online retail. In getting there, they have engaged in many anti-competitive practices…to destroy and then become brick-and-mortar retail. And a really well kept secret – is that retail isn’t Amazon’s most successful business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is. That is richest-man-in-the-history-of-the-planet Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ cloud computer backup company. Amazon’s…
Amazon – is a monster. Their market cap – is crushing ($851.57 billion). Their founder, Jeff Bezos, is the richest man in the history of the world. Amazon’s dominance of more and more sectors of our economy – is great and growing. And they do it – the way the violent, radical Leftist Black Panthers…
The conventional wisdom is that brick-and-mortar retail is doomed to die – very quickly, and very soon. As is usually the case – the conventional wisdom is quite conventional…but not particularly wise. Now to be clear – I am neither a Luddite nor an idiot. The mid-1990s moment the government wisely privatized the Internet –…
There is an old school joke – told by happy transplants to Texas from…anywhere else on the planet. It is: “I wasn’t born in Texas – but I got here as fast as I could.” It is of this I years ago thought when I then read Amazon founder – and thereby now the world’s…
