This month’s models are now available.  “Did he say, ‘Bill Back Better’?” Months into the budget battle – we used to say “budget process” – America is still waiting for a final bill that can pass both houses of Congress. The less partisan – we used to say “bi-partisan” – $1.2 trillion hard infrastructure plan is

This month's models have been posted. There were CHANGES in ALL the MODELS (highlighted in YELLOW). The rest of the newsletter will be posted by mid-month. The New World’s new world Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau counts America’s heads. And while the press fixates on how the results will change the boundaries of

This month’s models are now available.  Pay us $10,000 in bitcoin or we’ll delete all your files No, we wouldn’t dream of doing that. But there are lots of people who would. One of them is Maksim Yakubets, the 34-year-old Russian national at the top of the criminal syndicate known as – and we couldn’t

This month's models have been posted. There are CHANGES in ALL the models (highlighted in yellow). “Attention, shoppers! The store is NOT closing in 15 minutes!” It is 1982. The Home Shopping Club – later Home Shopping Network – pops up on cable TV across the U.S. A shudder runs down the spines of America’s

This month's models have been posted. The rest of the newsletter will be posted by middle of the month. There are CHANGES in ALL THE MODELS (highlighted in yellow). Breaking up big tech Hard to believe, but it’s been almost 40 years since a major antitrust action succeeded in U.S. courts. American Telephone & Telegraph

This month's models have been posted. There are CHANGES in ALL of the models (highlighted in yellow). Plug and play: The rise of electric vehicles We’ve wanted to do this one for a long time – about a year. Where did that year go? What could possibly have been so important that talking about cool

This month's models have been posted. Don’t bet against the house You’ve heard it a thousand times: “Buy real estate. They’re not making it anymore.” And it is good advice even if it’s as hackneyed as that other line you’re likely to hear in the same exchange: “Location, location, location!” But what kind of real

There were CHANGES in all the models (highlighted in yellow). The remainder of the newsletter will be published by middle of the month. The maximum hype about minimum wage There’s a debate raging about the minimum wage. And, more often than not, it’s an internal debate people are having inside their own brains. On the

Threat of inflation, or inflated threat? The federal government spent $4.8 trillion in 2019. That’s $150,880 per second, but it gets worse. In the plague year of 2020, it spent $6.8 trillion, which comes to … oh, who cares? It’s a lot and it’s bound to be even higher this year, especially with at least

Investing well by investing good Over the past two or three years, many investors have focused more on companies’ performance in terms of a new set of standards, those of the Environmental, Social and Governance movement. ESG might sound like something that appeals strictly to yoga instructors and vegan coffeehouse staff, but that is an