“Money – it don’t make me happy, but it sure does pay the bills.” – Cree Rider America’s national relationship to money has become perverse and comical, like some sub-sub-sub-group of the Craigslist personals. You look at what people desire and laugh at how little sense it makes with observable reality, and you wonder what it really reveals about our …
The forbidden topic of aging leaders
Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement today, the first Pope in 600 years to exit the position while still breathing. When I saw that Harvard Business Review had an article about the “forbidden” topic, I thought surely they were going to dig into the scandal that, well, isn’t really all that forbidden given the number of legal depositions and media …
Five reasons the stock market is over
I guess I missed this piece from Josh Brown the first time, but his take on why the next generation has no love for the stock market is an excellent window into the great shift in institutions that we are all experiencing. Read the whole thing, but I love this list in particular. A brief and far-from-complete list of the …
The last few turns of America’s Monopoly game
There is this game we used to play as kids, it was called Monopoly. Perhaps you heard of it? It was a game based ostensibly on the practice of real estate speculation in Atlantic City. The winner is the last person at the end of the game with all the money. Some people assume that the game is about how …
Generational warfare between Boomers and Xers
This piece in the National Journal is likely the best thing I have ever read on the generational tension between the Baby Boom and its children. In Generational Warfare: The Case Against Parasitic Baby Boomers, Gen Xer Jim Tankersley thinks he’s going to fight an easy battle against his Boomer father, an attorney who is supposed to advocate for his …