When I was a kid growing up in Toronto, children were chastised, and often punished, for using profanity. A common parental warning was, “I’m going wash your mouth out with soap if you talk like that again.” In the presence of children, adults were careful to avoid swear words. These…
While researching the post I planned to write on JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, I stumbled on this insightful analysis from Fortune’s Amanda Gerut highlighting Dimon’s recent public diss of the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives he and his bank once so proudly championed. Reading Gerut’s piece I was surprised…
Among the reasons I could never go into politics is that I’m way too sensitive. Being governor of Michigan would be my dream job, but if I only had the 37% approval rating of Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s tree hating leader, I’d be alarmed that nearly six million Michiganders either…
Americans who are outraged at obscene CEO pay and growing wealth disparity in the U.S. have good reason to boycott Starbucks. Trust me, you won’t be giving up much.
If ignorance is bliss, then Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is likely among the happiest persons on the planet.
Reading about the more than dozen CEOs who made pilgrimages to Mar-A-Lago to curry favor with president-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed my perceptions about how many of them reached their lofty heights in corporate America.
Governor Gavin Newsom absolutely, positively, no doubt about it, knew that the best fire risk experts in America repeatedly warned that California’s exposures to disastrous fires were too great for them to insure. He’s not only responsible for failing to mitigate the fire risks, but also for the burgeoning insurance crisis, the alarming magnitude of which isn’t fully understood.
Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world the horrific poverty of New Orleans. The fires ravaging Los Angeles have exposed the pathetic leadership that’s long plagued California.
It’s bad karma to celebrate the misfortunes of others, so let’s just say that reading about Mike Johns’ horrific experience with one of Google’s driverless Waymo taxis should make clear to tech geeks there’s a deity even superior to Elon Musk.
Some insight about Allstate CEO Tom Wilson who’s advisory for Americans to abandon their “addiction to divisiveness” has sparked calls for a boycott of what class action attorneys say is an ethically challenged insurance company.
Another primer on my eponymous Starkman Approved Theory.