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The Geography of Virtuous Capitalism

This is the 11th in a series introducing the book Redeeming Capitalism by Ken Barnes. You can pick up the start of this series here. See...

Precarious Christmas 2023

This post first published on December 24, 2021. Given its timelessness, we thought it appropriate to re-share it with our expanding...

Precarious Christmas

I recently came across a December 2020 article from the Financial Times titled "A Better Form of Capitalism is Possible." The title...

You're Killin' Me Smalls - Part II

In Part I, I shared a challenge I faced early in my career as a new quality control (QC) supervisor. I was increasingly exasperated with...

Dad is Fat, and Payday Lenders are Thieves

On a recent family road trip (yes, “trip,” not vacation) from Knoxville, TN, to the Brainerd Lakes Area of Minnesota, my wife and I...

Maximize Shareholder Value... When?

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the purpose of corporations is to maximize shareholder value.” Ok, that’s not actually...

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