In the morning before work I go to the gym on the corner of 38th street and Broadway. Here’s the intersection (above) – courtesy of Google Street View (at the very left of the picture above, on the second floor,
Economic Cycles
Looking back on 2015, one of the most important things I learned was about the concept of economic cycles. Prior to this past year, the entire concept of an economic cycle was foreign to me. I saw the rise and
Boerum Apparel
For the very first time this weekend, when I was getting dressed in the morning, I thought to myself: where did my shirt come from? Where did the materials come from to make my pants? Were the people that manufactured
Profits vs Profitability
In hindsight, I realize I was wrong, but I was very skeptical of social networking websites in the early years. I even wrote a blog post about it back in 2009 (see: Are Social Networking Websites the Next Bubble?). The
Low-End Market Disruption
Early in my career, I made a simple promise to two professors at Skidmore College who focus on Advertising and Marketing. I told them that each time they invite me up to talk to their students I will prepare a
How to Fix the US Economy
Personally, I’ve never been very passionate about politics. I do enjoy watching Jon Stewart, but outside of satire there are a lot of things that repel me from political debate in the United States. Chiefly, I don’t like the constant
Why do we still sign credit card receipts?
Yesterday morning I logged onto my computer to check the balance in my savings account and my credit card online. To log into the ING Direct website (the custodian of my savings account), I entered my nine digit customer ID
The Current State of America
In his book, “The World America Made,” Robert Kagan makes a particularly unpopular argument about the current state of America: Everything is fine. I haven’t read the book yet (it’s on my list), but from the first time I heard
An Apartment Rental Epiphany
I spent a good deal of time this week looking at apartments in Brooklyn. Come February 1st I will be moving in with my longtime girlfriend, Miranda, and in typical New York fashion, we were scrambling to find the perfect
Hope in the New Year
It’s hard to look back on 2011 as a good year. – Since the year 2000 the US National Debt has increased from $5 trillion to $15 trillion – Unemployment rates have hovered between 8% and 10% for the past