Category Archives: Capitalism

My fave quote today: Trump as CEO of…EVERYTHING

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Naomi

The opening paragraphs of an opinion column in today’s Times, by Bill Saporito, a former editor of Fortune: Not content to steer the ship of state, our president apparently wants to run the ship of commerce, too. Literally. The entire … Continue reading →

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Teslaspotting

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Naomi

The first Tesla I ever saw was parked on a street near City Hall in lower Manhattan. It was orange, I think, and striking enough in design so that passersby like me stopped to look at it. “Is that a … Continue reading →

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Why?why?why?why!?

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [I]t was reported that entrepreneurs in Los Angeles raised more than $1 million to race human sperm along a 20-centimeter-long course. Let us stop revering The Entrepreneurs.

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