Business Pundit

We all know that “one person, one vote” is a fundamental tenet of democracy. Unfortunately, it seems that some companies have yet to get the message and exert untoward influence on the running of governments across the world. While these… Read more

  Share While a most of us are relatively unhappy with some of the stuff governments do — charging taxes, banning fun things and messing with our guns — we all kind of agree that it’s a necessary evil for a functioning society.  But… Read more

  Share In the political arena, the President often becomes the focus of generalized rage at the opposing party, or just the generalized problems with the country overall.  Comparisons to Hitler are not uncommon.  Various hyperbolic… Read more

  Share The past three years have been, to put it mildly, a little depressing for Americans.  We’ve seen an economic collapse unmatched in generations shred our finances and job opportunities.  We’ve watched as unemployment ticked… Read more

On the cause side we have Wall Street: “GE filed 57k-page tax return; paid no taxes on $14b in profits… On the effect side we have Occupy: “Protestors snarl Los Angeles freeway traffic…” Anyone who suggests that Wall St. isn’t… Read more

  Share Politics, the biggest mess on the planet. Politics have seen a concept as simple as ‘societal progression’ muddled with money, greed, lies, ulterior motives, and religion until it’s beyond recognizable. Politics are completely… Read more

  Share   The media is having a field day when it comes to reporting on Occupy Wall Street (OWS).  Presented with a neat and clean narrative that they can hysterically massage into a controversy, they’ve delightfully contrasted Occupy… Read more

Share The most common critique that you’ll hear in regard to the Occupy Wall Street protests is that the protestors’ message is jumbled and incoherent.  They haven’t been able to coalesce around one specific set of policies, grievances… Read more

If the American Dream is to be believed, anyone can be president. But can anyone be a politician? A successful politician needs to communicate with his or her electorate, sympathizing with their concerns. Yet how possible is this when the… Read more

Share Oh baby, baby… it is a very wild world.  More wild, in fact, than it was when Cat Stevens first sang about it in 1970.  One way in which this wildness is manifested is the increased use of drugs and prevalence of substance… Read more

Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev — currently the 564th richest person on Earth — made the news in September 2011 when he used his KGB-acquired combat skills to punch fellow tycoon Sergei Polonsky out of his chair on a live Russian TV… Read more

Satan wasn’t always such a bad guy. There was a time when Satan was the coolest new kid on the block, and all the other angels wanted to hang out with him and wear the same color Nikes. Satan’s history is longer than just ‘the evilest guy ever’… Read more

With revolutions all across the Arab world, riots spreading through Europe, and the continued persistence of the economic downturn, it seems like everyone’s coming to the consensus that perhaps the situation has become so unthinkably bad that… Read more

Our world is constantly unsettled. There are few places that aren’t ravaged by crime, terror, and unrest, and America is no different. The American drug war began in 1969, when then-President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse to be a… Read more