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We talk all about the problems of the music industry: the decline in sales, the preference toward established artists, how much digital music makes per stream, blah blah blah. I have another question that might explain why music has been gradually replaced by other entertainment in society: where the hell are all the musicians talking about police brutality tonight? Where …
I am poised on the edge of my seat as the final days tick down to the release of the third season of Netflix’s blockbuster series House of Cards. Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright have given us some of the most brilliant archetypes of American power we’ve ever seen, and definitely the most brilliant acting that can be acquired on …
There are two kinds of businesses in today’s economy. The first kind creates value slowly, over long periods of time. The owners build it based on values of both personal and financial integrity. They see the people working in and with the business as a great investment, not as a cost to be slashed. Profitability is required for the larger …
The ruble is toast, the drop in oil prices is going to eviscerate the fracking operations dependent on junk bonds (which is 17% of the entire high-yield bond market), bank lobbyists wrote a provision to make the FDIC cover $303 trillion in derivatives alongside your savings accounts, and seven players in NHL are out with the mumps, like it’s 1917 …
I was possibly going to write about how Dick Cheney should be arrested, jammed into a straitjacket, and sent to The Hague without any of his forty-five heart medications, but instead I shall explain why Iggy Azalea is the most important musical artist of 2014. YouTube tells me that 389,794,373 people have viewed the video for “Fancy,” which for me …