Uber-everything company Amazon (Market Cap: $865 billion) – is a monster. Heralded as a free market success – Amazon has actually engaged in a whole lot of very anti-free market practices to get to be as huge as they are. Amazon’s Anticompetitive History Amazon Has Some Serious Antitrust Issues Amazon’s No-Profit Model: Bleed Competitors to […]
We the People should have known better than to hand the Democrats control of the House of Representatives. To paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke: “Giving money and power to Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Except “teenage” is too advanced – the Democrats appear to be stuck in eternal adolescence. We have […]
We all last week heard much about this: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters I am nauseously loathe to agree with New York Communist – oops, I mean Democrat – Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But when she’s right – she’s right. Amazon Calls Out Ocasio-Cortez as One of the Lawmakers to Blame For […]
We’ve long chronicled the incredibly obnoxious government cronyism incredibly huge Amazon (Market Cap: $779 billion) garners. Uber-Crony Amazon – Is About To Get The Biggest Crony Deal In DC’s Awful History Amazon: Government – And Its Crony, Monopoly Straight-Jacket How Crony Corrupt Is Amazon? The Right And Left Are Both Nauseated By It Amazon gets […]
Everything-Internet mega-company Amazon – is a monstrous beast. As of this writing, its Market Cap is $798 billion. Its owner, Jeff Bezos, is all by himself worth a cool $136 billion (at least until his looming divorce is finalized). Amazon dominates the Internet. Much of that domination has been achieved – by very anti-free market […]
The old political paradigm into which DC has spent the last many decades cramming the country – is coming apart at the seams. Busting through, actually. As constituencies jammed into one ideological side or other – are breaking free of their imposed bounds. We are in the midst of a massive, omni-directional realignment. Descriptives and […]
I am beginning to wonder if Amazon has ever done anything straight-shooting and/or above board – to acquire its massive market dominance and cash cap ($744 billion). Amazon Retail for nearly two decades has submarined and strip mined brick-and-mortar competitors by selling nigh everything during the retail-make-or-break Christmas season – at a loss. Amazon: Nearly […]
The old workman’s saying is: Measure twice – cut once: “One should always double check one’s measurements before cutting materials to minimize the chance of mistakes thus wasting materials, time and money.” The federal government spends $4 trillion per year. It has spent so much for so long – it has created ten of the […]
When the United States government goes shopping for contractors, there is an inherent tension between two competing desires for whom the Feds hire. You’d like to see the gigs go to American companies and people. But you’d like the taxpayers to get the best deal – and that might mean non-American companies and people. But […]