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January 16, 2024

glacial ice

Why We Want a New Kind of Ice

Knowing that we can find entrepreneurs in the most unexpected places, we should look in Dubai's bars for glacial ice cubes.

October 26, 2022

Weekly Economic News Roundup and recorded music formats vinyl

Vinyl Records, Creative Destruction, and the GDP

About much more than music, the past history of vinyl records is about creative destruction while the present relates to a GDP headache.

October 22, 2021

Weekly Economic News Roundup and recorded music formats vinyl

Some New Spin For Vinyl Records

Rather than new technology, the recent surge in the popularity of vinyl records represents a return to the past.

July 25, 2021

electric vehicles

The Electric Vehicle Switch

Seeing your new EV, you might find it difficult to imagine the huge changes that an electric vehicle switch required in the factory.

May 10, 2021

film product placement

How Reese’s Pieces Are Like Ray-Bans

With tectonic shifts in the TV and film business, movie product placement has remained a dependable marketing tool.

March 5, 2021

economic news roundup and auto industry jobs

The Mystery of the Disappearing Auto Industry Jobs

GM targeted 2035 for going all electric. Ford said the same for 2030 but only in Europe. Now Volvo tells us that it will sell battery […]

October 29, 2020

weekly economic news roundup business innovation

Looking at Our Restaurant Anxiety

As COVID-19 intensifies our restaurant anxiety, an entire dine-in industry is experiencing cataclysmic upheaval.

October 29, 2020

weekly economic news roundup business innovation

Looking at Our Restaurant Anxiety

As COVID-19 intensifies our restaurant anxiety, an entire dine-in industry is experiencing cataclysmic upheaval.

September 15, 2020

shorter songs

How Vinyl and Streaming Are Similar

Changes in recorded music sales were fueled by new formats that started with vinyl and eventually became streaming.

July 17, 2020

Weekly Economic News Roundup and, the Model T Ford and Tesla

Why Tesla is Like a Model T Ford

Although they are separated by a century, the Model T Ford and Tesla are rather similar when we look at their leadership and production.

July 10, 2020

Weekly Economic News Roundup and forms of payment

Dark Stores and Other Ways That Grocery Shopping Has Changed

The five basic ways that our grocery shopping will change at home and in the store were propelled by the coronavirus pandemic.

May 31, 2020

weekly economic roundup and Purell entrepreneurs

Why Purell is More Than a Hand Sanitizer

A classic story about entrepreneurs, Purell history displays how a wife and her husband satisfied a need before it existed.