Gordon's Notes

It’s a human thing. Something insane happens and we try to figure out “why now?”. We did a lot of that in the fall of 2001. Today I looked b...

All the money Trump will take from the poor and give to the rich has to go somewhere. So share prices should rise. On the other hand, a 10%...

In the real world HRC is President and the GOP is beginning a painful reform process that will lead to a far better conservative party and a...

The NYT has a readable summary of Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman’s US income research . Much of it is familiar, but I was ...

I hope to write about my response to “crisis-T". Yes, that T. The anti-O.  This is a prelude to that post. It’s a note about Orchid Is...

The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2017 Despair and Hope in Trump’s America - James Fallows - The Atlantic … I view Trump’s election as the most griev...

It’s dull stuff, but if you’re a lazy investor it’s hard to beat dollar cost average investing. Every month dollars automatically flow from ...

I’ve seen this movie before … How the Twinkie Made the Superrich Even Richer … The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has invested in the...

Peak Human . Accelerated globalization .  Weak mass media. Weaponized Facebook. Crisis T.

For reference - DeLong’s  Peak Human  and my  Mass Disability are synonyms. Both refer to a surplus of productive capacity relative to labo...

I don’t believe exit polls that claim half of white college women voted for Trump — though clearly that must have been true in many parts of...

I don’t think Mac users should switch, but I can’t recommend any newbies join MacShip. Aperture users abandoned. Sierra’s scary data shifti...

Read it … Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency - David Remnick - The New Yorker Nov 28, 2016 issue … I’m half Scotch-Irish, man!” he sai...

I did corporate research and development in clinical software for about 20 years. During that time I couldn’t write about informatics ideas....

I think 40% of Americans are disabled in the context of the modern work environment   because of automation and globalization . That’s why w...