The Oracle of Omaha Takes on “Casino Capitalism”

The Oracle of Omaha Takes on “Casino Capitalism”

Warren Buffet, “The Oracle of Omaha,” finally retired as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. He was an avowed capitalist and someone who invested more wisely and more profitably than anyone else in the last 50 years.  In 1964, if you had invested $100.00 with him...
“Company Over Country” ~ Zuck Sucks up to China

“Company Over Country” ~ Zuck Sucks up to China

What do U.S. companies owe to the U.S., its people and the nation that gave them birth? It’s a question that has been hanging around since the 1980s, in the go-go years of globalization, when U.S. and E.U. companies vocally claimed to be “de-nationalizing” their...
The Bottification of Airbnb

The Bottification of Airbnb

The “Bottification” of Airbnb Under the brutal heat dome that hovered over the eastern seaboard in mid-June of 2024, my family and I were in Washington D.C. to do the typical tourist things: the Air and Space museum, Arlington Cemetery, the Holocaust Museum, the...

Zuck’s Bafflegab Up on the Hill

Headlines on January 31st claimed that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, had apologized at a U.S. Senate hearing to parents whose children had died as a result of suicide from cyberbullying, asphyxiation from participating in the “blackout challenge,” body-image...