Category Archives: Capitalism

Teslaspotting

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!?

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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And the answer is…”billionaire brain”

Paul Krugman gives us this taut definition in his newsletter today, in which he says we don’t have to make a decision as to whether Trump and Musk’s destruction is incompetent or evil. They are not mutually exclusive. As he … Continue reading

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