Showing posts with label commercial ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commercial ethics. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2025

Official Innumeracy

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Cutting tariffs by 115% means that everything gets a 15% subsidy, perhaps by a reduction in declared value. Secretary of the Treasury Scott ...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Value and Worth

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“What’s it worth?” Bill Bradford ( Wikipedia here )  asked me. That was about 1976 in his store, Liberty Coins, on Abbott Road in East Lansi...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

World Peace Through World Trade

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I stopped at Walmart because they have the best organic salad greens in a box at a price even lower than Whole Foods. Usually, it is a quick...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

The Mercury Dime

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When I first was given the opportunity to choose my own username on a mainframe computer (actually, a DEC VAX super-mini) in 1989, I asked f...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

The Audacity of Entrepreneurship

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"What comes out of a team or a committee is the most daring idea that the least daring man can accept." John Arnold. "Space, ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

A Good Place with Inadequate Philosophy

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We enjoyed  The Good Place . We watched it on disc and look forward to the release of Season 4. The show’s chatty dialogs on moral philosop...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Coffee at the Co-op: Tradition and Novelty

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Traditional Marxism teaches that capitalist firms attempt to drive each other out of business by seizing markets. On the other hand, the Aus...
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Saturday, September 15, 2018

The Market is Always Right – About the Market

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“Employee Salaries versus Contributions to Society” was a recent poll of 1013 people conducted by CreditLoan dot Com. The survey was not ri...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018

After Action Report: Heartbreak Ridge

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Heartbreak Ridge  is a good action story with few leadership lessons. Dissenting for the sake of the task is one of the ethical standards ...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Spanish Coins on American Notes

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Until 1857, silver and gold coins from Mexico, Spain, France, Brazil, and other nations were legal tender in the United States. We know comm...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Aaron Feldman:"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin"

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BUY THE BOOK BEFORE THE COIN headlined an advertisement in the March 1966 issue of The Numismatist. Aaron R. Feldman offered 25 titles, so...