Milton Friedman: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”

by Bruce | May 27, 2026 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy

This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics. Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn in 1912 and died in San Francisco in 2006 at age 94. He  is known as the primary apostle of monetarism, which is the...

Memorial Day

by Bruce | May 25, 2026 | Articles, Ineffable

Joseph Stiglitz: Can Free Trade Go Too Far?

by Bruce | May 13, 2026 | Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Globalization, Strategy

Continuing our series on prominent economists from the Industrial Revolution to AI, drawing liberally on the impressive accomplishment of John Cassidy’s Capitalism and its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (John Cassidy, Farrar, Strauss and...

The Luddites: Crying “Stop” in the Face of Progress

by Bruce | April 30, 2026 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy

This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics.  It’s our first profiling not a champion of capitalist progress but a stout opponent. Cassidy opens this, Chapter 3 of his work (“The Logic of the Luddites”)...

Bruce Interviewed About Agentic AI

by Bruce | April 22, 2026 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy

Being published live today are links to video recordings of my recent interview with Sidebar Advisors’ Founder and Managing Director, Niraj Chhabra.  Copious thanks to Niraj and his team for making this possible. Spotify Apple Buzzsprout We covered a lot of...