Capitalism – The Musings of the Big Red Car

Fast Food Surge Pricing? Price Gouging? WTF?

Big Red Car — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:59:09 +0000

There are ideas that sweep through the business world that slowly work there way into every aspect of business though at first they seemed a little odd. It’s like going to the beach and coming home with sand in your shoes — it’s everywhere. I offer two examples: 1. Creating a club around a set […]

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Pure Philanthropy

Big Red Car — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:00:02 +0000

In this era of massive self-aggrandizement and virtue signaling, it is heartwarming to relate a tale of pure philanthropy and goodness. We all need a bit of good news, no? What’s THE STORY, Big Red Car? The story goes like this: Sandy and Ruth Gottesman lived happily in Rye, New York. Sandy was a finance […]

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Jamie Dimon, Ray Dalio And The STRICT PARENT Defense Of Evil

Big Red Car — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:15:06 +0000

In the recent annals of Chinese apologia stand two giants: Jamie Dimon and Ray Dalio. Allow me to elaborate. Jamie Dimon – Chairman/CEO of America’s largest bank and billionaire Jamie Dimon made an enormous faux pas recently when he said that his bank, JPMorgan, would last longer than the Chinese Communist Party. It went something […]

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Solving The Wrong Problem

Big Red Car — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 23:00:16 +0000

Government at all levels often solves the wrong problem, is not very smart, is slow to act. Allow me to provide a vivid example. Problem: Shipping is backing up at West Coast ports with more than 100 ships awaiting unloading at ports like Long Beach and Los Angeles. This will negatively impact Christmas sales, the […]

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Killing The Gig Economy

Big Red Car — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:25:24 +0000

A lot of trends, suspect ideas, cultural quirks, and bad laws start in California and spread across the country. Case in point is California Assembly Bill 5 which destroys the gig economy by imposing standards on the employer-employee relationship that prevent the gig economy from functioning in a manner as it currently does. Lyft and […]

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College Basketball — Carolina Tar Heels v Duke Blue Devils — A Modest Proposal

Big Red Car — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:53:11 +0000

If you are like me, you are still wondering when the 2019-2020 NCAA Tournament, March Madness, is going to start. Alas, we are well and truly fucked, amigo. It is never going to happen. Which brings me to the quandary of what to do with college basketball come November. So, I make bold to make […]

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Capitalism To The Rescue

Big Red Car — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:16:56 +0000

The day after Pearl Harbor, Ford Motor Company announced it was retooling all of its production lines to produce Jeeps and other military vehicles thereby setting in motion a wholesale shift of American industry to support the war effort. Three and a half years later, America was producing 50,000 airplanes of all types on a […]

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Elon Musk — Quick Trigger Capitalist

Big Red Car — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:38:39 +0000

I am a huge fan of the core businessman Elon Musk. Not so much on him personally. Very skeptical on Tesla. Having said that, I rise to applaud Elon Musk (I was going to call him “Elon” like he and I are pals, but we’re not) for being quick on the draw as it relates […]

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The Cult of Personality and Adam Neumann of We (We Work)

Big Red Car — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:40:46 +0000

Since time immemorial, American business has always revered the iconic startup leader whether it was John Davison Rockefeller, Sr — American business icon, considered the wealthiest American of all time, and a generous philanthropist; or, the Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates stories. Sam Walton was an iconic, successful businessman. All have a “larger than […]

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Sanctions Work – ZTE

Big Red Car — Wed, 16 May 2018 14:52:24 +0000

Sanctions, Big Red Car? How dreary for such a sunny, lovely day in the ATX, yawn! OK, Big Red Car tell me about how sanctions work. Maybe a real world example? Dear reader, let us take up the case of Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment, known as ZTE. They are a maker of inexpensive smartphones and other telecom […]

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