by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 18, 2014 | Business & Economics, Society & Culture
The TED Talk seems one part public service announcement and one part advertisement for a multinational corporation ([[Unilever]]), but the salient point for me was breaking through the assumed contradiction between private enterprise growth tied so strongly with the...
by Barry Fagin | Nov 17, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, February 27, 2014} What do the raging protest movements in the United States, Venezuela, the Ukraine, and Thailand have in common? They all want an end to corruption. “Occupy Wall Street” railed against the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 13, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
{Originally drafted in 2012, the people have just spoken in midterm elections, consciously or not in the eventual realization that the economic story they believe is wrong.} Could the Obama years have been a small recession? I must wonder — and offer an...
by Barry Fagin | Nov 3, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, February 13, 2014} According to the Wall Street Journal, Warren Buffett is over $12 billion richer than he was a year ago. Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) gained pretty close to that much. I think...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 20, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, January 9, 2014, as “Stop waging ‘war’ on youth”} America is a nation at war. I do not mean the “War on Terror” – you can’t wage war against a feeling. I don’t mean the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 9, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
I know the narrative is foreign to many, damnwell discomforting or infuriating to others. But when certain people like myself using certain economic assumptions can see government policies implemented, predict their outcomes, and have those outcomes consistently...