Some Wall Street Journal and Reuters news exclusives this week forced me to accept that corporate morals and ethics no longer matter.
On Mortgage Closings and Teeth Cleanings
Some musings while signing my mortgage closing documents and getting my teeth cleaned today.
Hollywood’s CEO Pay Awakening
Some thoughts on the less than Six Degrees of Separation between Hollywood’s striking workers and the workers at GM’s Ohio electric battery plant.
America’s Banking Code of “Ethics”
Reading up on the latest wrongdoing in U.S. banking and finance I was struck just how much the industry has changed since the days of Milburn Drysdale of Beverly Hillbillies fame.
By today’s banking standards, Drysdale was an upstanding executive.
Joe Biden’s Colossal Electric Vehicles Debacle
If Americans understood the billions of their taxpayer dollars the Biden Administration is squandering pursuing its failed EV policies, they might finally demand the competent political and corporate leadership that’s so desperately needed. The linked story is my attempt to generate some necessary collective anger.
The Challenge of Positive Thinking
Happy people think happy thoughts, but I wonder if they are aware of what’s happening in the world.
Mayor Pete’s and Scott Kirby’s Woeful Leadership
Americans willing to accept Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and United CEO Scott Kirby remaining in their jobs must embrace the years of airline travel misery that awaits them.
WOOD: THE BUD LIGHT OF GRAND RAPIDS TV
Grand Rapids, MI, has long had an outsized influence on America. It is my hope the city’s residents will make a national example of their NBC affiliate and boycott the station until anchor Michele DeSelms apologizes for unfairly dissing them as hate mongers who support gay discrimination.
When AI + DEI = BS
Do the names Ilit Raz, Abraham Shafi, Charlie Javice, and Crystal Huang mean anything to you? If they don’t you are blissfully unaware of some alleged fraud that has been revealed in the upstart tech industry by millennial CEOs who were backed by respected names in the VC industry.
Sam Bankman-Fried was possibly just the tip of the iceberg.
Travelers Beware! Hertz Will Put You in an EV
Surveys show that most Americans are becoming increasingly leery of electric vehicles, but there’s a high likelihood that travelers renting from Hertz this summer will be given one.
Says a writer for The Atlantic who experienced the switcheroo: “(EVs) are great, potentially planet-saving machines, but the ordeal made me want to wage a slash-and-burn campaign against all of them.”