Tag: Blackberry

Entropy, Dodo Birds, and Reducing Complexity in Your Financial Life

We learn today that Hostess — maker of Twinkies and Hostess Cupcakes — is going to cease to exist. It will be no more. Michael Pollan cheers. So do I (though, given the nasty labor vs. capital fight that is going on here, I limit my cheer to the part […]

The Difference Between Business-People and Financiers

Recently we’ve been exposed to a great example of the difference between business-people and financiers, in the guise of a clearly successful financier asserting, quite a bit more broadly, that he was a clearly successful business-person. I speak, of course, of Mitt Romney, private equity hero, repeatedly asserting that he […]