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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics Goes To…..

The Nobel in Econ (a/k/a The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for 2024 was awarded a few days ago to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and to James Robinson of the University of Chicago. Here at Adam Smith, Esq., we try to... read more +

Supply Chains Aren’t Just for Manufacturers

by | Jul 5, 2022 | 0 Comments

Yes, I'm looking at you, law firm leaders.  You, too, have a supply chain.  It's time to start thinking of it that way. May we take a step back for a moment?  From the redoubtable St. Louis Fed comes a study Supply Chain Disruptions and Inflation During COVID-19 that...

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“Everything Must Go!” (Your Office Edition)

by | Jun 23, 2022 | 0 Comments

Two plus years after the simultaneous worldwide Office Exodus ("Everybody out of the building!") at the onset of this pandemic, we are at last beginning to emerge from the by-guess-and-by-golly finger-in-the-air period of figuring out what WFH (thank you, Zoom, Webex,...

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Fun With Rate Increases: How High is Too High?

by | Jun 15, 2022 | 1 Comment

A few days ago the intrepid and data-tropic Bloomberg Law reporter Roy Strom published Big law rates topping $2,000 leave value 'in the eye of the beholder.'  Roy is a friend (disclosure!)  but his story prompted some reflections hereabouts on "How high is too high?" ...

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