My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: Everyone old enough remembers exactly what they were doing on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. If all of our mornings did not start out the same way…. we all ended our evening the same way. Shock and disbelief that for the first time since the Civil War…enemy combatants had […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: In Mr. Olson‘s third grade class I was one of the star students. In order to incentivize the other students to get good grades Mr. Olson introduced an economic system based on “schnickles“. As students turned in their homework and grades were handed out, we would each get schnickles. Obviously the […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: When I lived in the Philippines a lifetime ago I took part in a financial experiment that forever changed the way that I perceived people to understand money. For mathematical purposes… at the time one American dollar was the equivalent to 30 Filipino pesos. If one peso was the equivalent of […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: Some days are completely unforgettable while at the same time….understandably…. those are the days we want to completely forget! The old school prescription for trauma is to “shove that crap down and bury it deep inside“. The problem with that is those things which we refuse to deal with, acknowledge, and […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: A little more than 20 years ago I was a struggling contractor who had become disenfranchised due to the fact that growing up I was told by people that I loved and trusted that I would do great things. Imagine my disappointment when I looked back at my life and it […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: This week’s articles/news was a smorgasbord of contradiction. The media wanted of us to fear that 7 1/2 million people would fall off the unemployment benefits cliff if benefits were not extended. These people would be homeless and helpless even though there is a record number of jobs that need to […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: When I was 16 we moved from the tiny town of Show Low which had a population of about 4000 people to the bustling “city” of Globe with a population of about 10,000 people. Globe was a mining town and I was excited because of its old buildings and history. I […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: It’s the bottom of the ninth…..7th game of the World Series.… two outs….bases loaded….. full count…down my three. Here’s the pitch… Crack of the bat…..it’s going going going going GOOOOOONE!!!! It’s the NBA finals………five seconds left on the clock… down by two……full court press….inbound pass to Wahl….. he fakes……he rolls off…..double […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: This week (July 20th) we celebrated the 52nd anniversary of one of man’s greatest accomplishments… setting foot on the moon!! This was not done during a time of relative peace and prosperity. This was done during the time of Vietnam, The Cold War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. A time of […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: There is a great divide in our land. It is not a divide between races, religions, or even the haves and the have not‘s. It is a division between those who do everything and those who do nothing! Those who believe in producing HUGE for the sake of the betterment of […]