The eminent historian Niall Ferguson has written an article with the above title with quality statistics on the decline of reading and the impact on society. Here’s the link. It’s a short read. It seems so obvious. I knew about the reading problem. But his structure and analysis really brings it home.
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The Felder Report this week offers some information from generally well thought of sources on the real impacts of inflation and tariffs. Below is one of the graphs he features. Click on this link to go directly to the article. If you’ve had some sense that perhaps inflation is chronically under reported and aren’t quite
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Britain used to be the world’s great power and it’s currency the world’s currency. What happened? Graeme Thompson explains it in this article he published on Engelsberg Ideas. Here’s the link. He says at the beginning, ” A mercantilist, multipolar geopolitical system appears to be emerging from within the liberal world order, destined to replace
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This article from The Robin Report (free to sign up for their daily posts on retail) is about grocery stores. Actually, that’s not quite right. It’s about choice and the fact that we’re getting tired of having to choose among 20 kinds of detergent. Or cat food. Or ketchup. Etc. I find such a shopping
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I believe in the concept of the Federal Reserve being independent. I don’t like the idea of Trump (or any president) trying to control it. At this particular time, I don’t think we need many, if any, interest rate reductions. A six to seven percent mortgage rate is a historical norm. You might consider that
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Harvard Business Review, May 2002. Interestingly enough, trying harder is a problem when the business environment changes because of the tendency to do more of the same thing you’ve always done. Typically, those things are not the right things to do anymore. As I’ve written, this corresponds to my own experience doing turnaround work. You
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That’s the title of a scroll through presentation by the Financial Times. It shows and discusses the growth, and projected growth, of data centers. Talks about the energy needs and cooling requirements (resulting in more energy needs) and some of the solutions big players are pursuing. Here’s the link. You probably thought, like I did,
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“The current national conversation about manufacturing confuses a reduction in manufacturing jobs with a slowdown in U.S. manufacturing. Period. Once we have properly understood this distinction, unpacked the reality of both, cared to look into the causation of both, and fully analyzed what it all means, we will have a much more effective understanding of the
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