“There’s class warfare, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” — Warren Buffett, 2006 TO: Middle America FROM: Me RE: Your future You just don’t get it, do you? The middle class has long played a central role in the health of America’s economy. As the middle class grew, [...]
What with the big kerfuffle over the Bush tax cut extension and the end of the year, I’ve been thinking a lot about taxes lately. I think there’s a lot of misinformation out there, alongside a tremendous amount of just lazy thinking. So I’d like to share my perspectives on three taxes that are recurring [...]
Overlooked, I think, in today’s arrival of the iPad 3G (as differentiated from its non-3G brethren) is its unique potential to act as a disruptive technology — that is, an innovation that reorganizes the operation of the marketplace. In the run-up to the release of the iPhone in 2007, many analysts and enthusiasts (myself included) [...]