Substack Library
GlossaryLabor
September 5, 2021If you read these posts regularly, forward them and download the podcast, I am making a request—become a paid subscriber or a sponsor. I think you now have a sense of what we are up to. Below, I’ll tell you a bit of where we would like to go.
Speeches That Resonate, Forever
September 1, 2021If someone forwarded this to you, you can subscribe here.
China Context
August 1, 2021For foreigners, particularly Americans, it’s hard to make sense of Chinese policy because the systems are so different. This is evident in the reaction to Chinese regulators’ decision to defenestrate private Chinese education companies. A representative sample from Bloomberg: “after a week of wild market swings and tense calls with clients, some investors have decided China just isn’t worth the trouble.” For the record, China’s stock market is up 27% since Jan. 1, 2020 and down 7% this year. With that in mind, some context.
A Woman’s World
July 25, 2021There is nothing more natural than having babies. Sitting at a desk in a public library, I watched about 30 of the next generation wobble uncertainly on the grass, shaded by tall trees. “You put your left foot out…,” they sang, a young parents’ group from the look of it or, more accurately, mostly a young mother’s group since there was just one man.
Our Stock Market Addiction
July 18, 2021Dude, everyone is doing it, just re-register your company as an C-Corp and put out the call for money. In this environment, why not?
A Covid Hangover
July 4, 2021When I was an adult, I asked my father––a tall, lean man with a shock of white hair–– how he invested money when I was a kid. His answer was simple: he didn’t. In part, this was probably because the markets didn’t interest him. In part, I suspect this was because he grew up during the Great Depression. For him, stocks losing 90% of their value wasn’t an aberration, it was life.