For the first time since the start of the Eisenhower administration in the middle of the last century (long before any of y’all were even alive), the North Carolina Tarheels play the Duke Blue Devils at Duke’s Cameron Center in Durham, NC with neither team nationally ranked in the Top 25 teams in the United States.
We are canvassing the world to take its pulse post-pandemic and post-American election. We have been to Spain, Israel, Chile, South Africa, California, Germany/Spain, Japan/Singapore, and comes now a gentleman from Ireland who is an accomplished and seasoned medical device entrepreneur.
He has a finger on the pulse of Ireland and the European Union and has traveled extensively to the States, so his view is quite attuned and subtle. They even speak a form of English in Ireland. He is also a lot of fun to deal with.
Full disclosure: I am Irish (Brennan) on my mother’s side and feel very Irish in temperament. I used to give this client an “Irish Discount.” True fact.
You will recall we are canvassing the world to get an idea of how folks think about themselves, their own businesses, their own countries, and the United States.
Today, our globe trotting correspondent is a Canadian ex-pat who has lived in Japan for more than three decades and has roamed Asia, the US, and Canada for his entire business career which has been focused on the science of materials, very exotic materials and problem solving using exotic processes.
His is an informed view of that part of the world. Recently, we had the great pleasure of a long, fascinating convo in the garden behind Texas French Bread in Austin By God Texas.
The election is over. Joe Biden is our President (he is my President) and he is going to start paying off all the chits he wrote during the election.
One of those chits was putting Beto in charge of gun control — maybe not literally, but figuratively.
I care not a whit about the gun issue, as I think the Second Amendment is dispositive of the matter though it may take going to the Supreme Court to make that stick, but I do think there is room for some common ground.
Will we find it? No. Sorry. Not a chance in Hell.
Other day I am scanning a blog post from what was once my favorite blog. The author uses the words “monetary policy” and “fiscal policy” in a manner that reveals he has no earthly idea what they mean, but they sit nicely in the sentence and give off the erroneous notion that he is an erudite and educated observer of the condition of the world and our economy.
So, your Big Red Car will tell you what they actually mean.
Monetary policy and fiscal policy are not interchangeable. They mean different things.
Please see earlier posts from:
The questions:
1. How are you feeling — optimistic, pessimistic — about business, the world, your country in general?
2. What is the world’s biggest challenge from here on out?
3. Anything that you think I need to know?
Comes now the voice of “deepest darkest South Africa” which speaks with authority as to South Africa and Kenya.
Please see earlier posts from:
The questions:
1. How are you feeling — optimistic, pessimistic — about business, the world, your country in general?
2. What is the world’s biggest challenge from here on out?
3. Anything that you think I need to know?
My amigo from Chile is a high level, seasoned software professional (with languages, children, and perspective) with English roots and sensibilities in this lovely country with its mountains and endless coastline.
Snow skiing on one side, surfing on the other.
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