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The Commerce Mindset: Prosperity Through Trade and Exchange
The essence of commerce lies in the mutual benefit derived from trade and exchange. Adopting a ‘Pro Commerce’ mindset incentivizes businesses to create value in every transaction, enriching both consumer experiences and the economic health of the community. It encourages entrepreneurs to embrace transparent practices, ethical trade, and a consumer-centric approach, which in turn builds
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Commerce has no Pope
Commerce has no pope, no king, no emperor, no constitution, no general and no supreme commander. Socialism and Communism have their tyrants, despots, Great Leaders, millions of sophisticated professors, tens of millions of wise politicians and hundreds of millions of bureaucrats. In the great global Pax Americana of the past 70 years, commerce has lifted
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Embracing the Power of Commerce in Today’s Economy
Commerce, often termed as the backbone of a thriving economy, stands at the forefront of modern society’s progression. Michael Phillips, a renowned economist, once emphasized that ‘Commerce is the greatest of all human institutions,’ elucidating its integral role in fostering growth, enabling innovation, and bridging markets globally. Taking a leaf from his insights, businesses today
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Pieces of Glass
It is my opinion that humans aren’t very smart, most social improvements are the byproduct of technological change and technology is really math and accidents with increments of change that result from failures. Let’s begin with the greatest change in human life. It’s what happened in Amsterdam in the first decade of 1600. The whole
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Entertaining Gods of Commerce
Why is the first commercial president so keen on ending warfare? Before I try to answer that question let me summarize where we are. Since the late 1980’s I have used the term Pro Commerce for my global view. My permanent google search for that term turns out about one usage a year, mostly in
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Irrelevant Comment on The Wall Street Journal
I’ve read the WSJ for over fifty years, excluding the 1970’s when I paid no attention to any major media. In the current few decades I found the news section was the same as the totally fake New York Times; I ignored it. I read primarily the last three pages of the front section and
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The Best Restaurant in America
That could be a pretty pretentious label for me to give to any object or business. But I will defend it. The restaurant is Greens in San Francisco at Ft. Mason and ‘yes’ it is a vegetarian restaurant. The Best Restaurant in America. . I don’t have legitimate credentials for saying anything about any restaurant.
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The Best Restaurant in America
That could be a pretty pretentious label for me to give to any object or business. But I will defend it. The restaurant is Greens in San Francisco at Ft. Mason and ‘yes’ it is a vegetarian restaurant. The Best Restaurant in America. . I don’t have legitimate credentials for saying anything about any restaurant.
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Israel for the Next Few Centuries
Military experts the world over are commenting on the Rising Lion attack from Israel on Iran. The militaries of the world are the first to appreciate Israel. But Israel’s contribution is orders of magnitude greater than what appears on the surface. The little tribe that left Egypt three thousand years ago gave us the modern
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My Immoral Invention
‘Back in the day’ I did the marketing research for BankAmericard; now called Visa. Their problem at the time was a loss ratio of 5%. High for personal loans by banking standards. My job was to find the ‘bad actors.’ In those days we had computers but they were fed by punch cards. So I
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What I Know About Joe Biden From the News
I know that over one million people world wide have known for more than four years that Joe Biden is senile and incapable of being president of the United States. The million people consist of every foreign office on the planet, every journalist on the planet, and their friends. I knew that Joe Biden was
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I’m an Economist, the Rest Aren’t
After three years at U.C. Berkeley graduate school of economics I should have been given a PhD, in 1964, but the pro-Castro faculty made that an impossibility. Let us begin. Capital is not factories, planes, buildings, or anything else physical. Capital is all accurate knowledge. After the War, Germany and Japan rebuilt and promptly returned
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How Elon Can Take Over American Politics
Let’s start with national electoral politics. Of the 535 members of Congress, about 100 are not vulnerable to change because their home territory is controlled by their own machine. Now, X provides an advantage that has never been available before. A careful screening of users can be undertaken to make sure their politics are right
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Revolution or Counterrevolution
This may be the greatest moment in human history. The major revolutions in history were the American (really a nationalist rebellion), French (really several waves of class revolution), the Russian, the Chinese and a few other dictator uprisings. What makes the current revolution or counterrevolution a cohesive movement: Open Trump rebellion in America against the
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Three Key Concepts to a Better Life
Three Key Concepts to a Better Life Positive sum outcomes occur in nearly all human actions. Cooperation is the mode of modern commerce. The American model of government is an improvement over all others. Every day of my life I have had to deal with people who fail to understand these three fundamental principles of
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How I Succeeded
How did I carry out three projects in San Francisco out of many that I will describe in the future? *The oldest, most successful high end vegetarian restaurant in America. *The beautiful East Bay Bridge. * A gorgeous small park. The oldest, most successful high end vegetarian restaurant in America is Greens in Fort Mason;
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Measuring Global Temperatures
There are two serious problems in measuring global temperatures. The first is that an average is usually meant to be based on a ‘normal distribution.’ But any temperature measure of the earth’s surface is not a normal distribution. Therefore the measures of mean, skew and variance are off the mark. The Earth’s total surface is
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Unions Seriously Harm
One important lesson from the Palisades fire is that rich people or people who form their own fire district can hire a private fire fighting company. A real estate developer in Palisades did just that and saved his entire shopping mall. Now that everyone knows that urban entities like Los Angeles County and the California
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Ann Landers and Israel
Longtime readers know my view of my own Judaism. We Jews are the chosen people. Chosen to help humankind be ‘better.’ Jews are hated because they have been able to read, write, and do math for 3,000 years and virtually nobody else can or could. They have also been good at commerce, globally. And yes,
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I Was There
I was there at the beginning of the Beatnik movement, the hippie movement, and the Whole Earth Catalog. The Beats were mostly in New York and San Francisco. I went to the U. of Chicago, in the geographic middle, in August of 1955 and was in the male dormitories in 1957 for six months. For
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Where the Ultra Rich Came From
The ultra-rich, our billionaires, are in for a great deal of antagonism. However, only a few hundred people know where they came from and no one seems to have written about it. I see two sources, and a combination of the two. A). One came from the genius of Harold Geneen, who became President of
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The Democrat Party is Gone
The Democrat Party was gone, officially, in 2020 when it could not field a single viable candidate. Of course people still vote the way their parents did. It can go on for a few years as it did with the Whigs. There were three Democrat Party pseudo candidates: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
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Better Economics
I earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley but never got the degree because: I lacked the two languages required at the time, the entire department was in love with Fidel Castro while I was on the campaign staff of Richard Nixon and I had my doubts about many parts of the economics teachings.
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Biden Almost Killed Me
In the Fall of 1991, I was riding in a taxi down K Street in Washington, D.C. on a Saturday when the Senate hearings on Judge Thomas were underway. I was going to a board meeting of a group I was associated with for seven years. A global third world funding project called Appropriate Technology
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Japanese Think Tank
I’ve worked for several think tanks around the world. American, French, Dutch, and Swedish but the most unique and interesting was the one in Japan where I was a partner. It was called Dynax and there were only two of us principals. For the first few years, in the early 1990’s, we had a translator
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Jewish Community Organizations Fail
San Francisco State University is in a financial crisis. The number of students applying and entering has dropped significantly in this century but the school has been unable to demand more money from the State or to cut expenses sufficiently. I blame the Jews. I’m being facetious. Not Jews but the Jewish community organizations. In
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Power vs God, the Wokie View
About fifty years ago I did a small survey and found that there were four categories of primary universal action as viewed by Americans. About 50% of adults viewed some (1) sort of god as the prime mover, 20% saw (2) power as the prime mover, 25% saw (3) money as the prime mover and
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Spontaneous Commerce
When Airbnb was first started in San Francisco, I had three friends who immediately got into the business. Does that mean anything to you? One was a game developer, no surprise. He bought three condos and rented them out. The second was a salaryman who bought five houses in New Orleans with the intention of
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Google and Me
I understood Google more than a decade before it existed. Better than it understands itself today. In 1986 I published a book titled Marketing Without Advertising, based on a course I taught for eight years in my Noren Small Business Institute. It became the third largest selling marketing book in English over the next two
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Jew Hate in America
I’ve lived with Jew hate for several parts of my life. I was in an El Paso elementary school from 1946 to 1949. The Mexican kids would follow me home from school and throw rocks at me whenever the Dominican traveling priests came to Juarez to denounce Jews. Fortunately I was a fast runner. The
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Spontaneous Commerce
When Airbnb was first started in San Francisco, I had three friends who immediately got into the business. Does that mean anything to you? One was a game developer, no surprise. He bought three condos and rented them out. The second was a salaryman who bought five houses in New Orleans with the intention of
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One Man Is Now What Matters
You should know this name by now: Robby Starbuck. One person with the power of the modern social media, the visual media, and the right idea can now have new political power never before imagined. Robby Starbuck, understands America’s core values, primarily because his parents escaped from Cuba. He realized that the ‘woke movement’ to