The Times They are A-Changin “Most of us assume that the future will more or less resemble the present, but this is not necessarily so. In a long and eventful life, I have witnessed many periods of what I call radical disequilibrium. We are...
I've received a number of comments from readers confused by the cross-outs in The Lonely Realist. I did not intend them to be a source of confusion. I add them to inspire thought - that is, the crossed-out text should be read together with the...
Change is Coming Remember when successful people who became wealthy were treated as paradigms of the American Dream? The successful entrepreneurs of the very recent past, the Bezoses, Bloombergs, Schultzes, Sandbergs, Romneys and Zuckerbergs, are today’s Fat Cats. Bernie Sanders says that "We live...
Are our Tax Laws Overly Complex? Yes. They also distort economic activity, misallocating resources and reducing productivity. They were drafted by politicians bought pressured by lobbyists wealthy contributors cronies special interests. They don’t adequately address our unsustainable deficits. The Internal Revenue Code impacts every American, whether an individual or entity,...
Elon Musk Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla. He used to also be Chairman, but was forced to resign when he allegedly committed securities fraud in September by Tweeting that he had secured financing to take Tesla private. That arguably was a lie....