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Tag Archives: Technology
Nonlinear Thinking: Drone Valet Parking Attendents
Wow! Life is getting too easy. Guess the driving tests of the future will require the knowledge of how to use a smart phone. Just another example of Schumpeterian innovation that will destroy some jobs and create others. No more … Continue reading
Nonlinear Thinking: Robot Run Warehouses
Here’s an interesting video clip that reinforces our view that almost all new innovation and technology is labor saving/destroying and that U.S. unemployment is much more structural than most perceive (click here to view video). Even the military, with the … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, Equities, Nonlinear Thinking, Policy, Politics
Tagged Creative Destruction, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Robots, Technology, Unemployment, Warehouse
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This Time is Different
Those dreaded words you never want to hear as an investor. But check out the Fortune Magazine graphic of this recession relative to others since the WWII. Yes it’s a balance sheet problem and the economy needs more time to … Continue reading
Posted in Black Swan Watch, Charts, Demographics, Economics, Employment, Fiscal Policy, Policy, Politics
Tagged employment, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Technology
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Nonlinear Thinking: The Skin Gun
We’ve written about our belief of the coming explosion of new technologies. Go no further than this video. If governments will balance their budgets, minimize the economic distortions of their actions, provide quality education, and stay out of the … Continue reading
Picture of the Day: The Wealth of Nations
Great shot (magnified 22x) of a wood ant holding a microchip in its teeth. This picture symbolizes, at least to us, the recipe for the “Wealth of Nations:” 1) the work ethic of the ant; 2) the technology of the … Continue reading
