Tag: Dan Hicks

Towards an Industry of Pure Financial Advice

I admire Paul Krugman in lots of different ways. People think of Krugman above all as an economist and as a liberal. Those who don’t like one or both of those labels argue that he’s wrong about everything. I won’t take those folks on here, other than to say that, […]

Big Machines

Twenty years ago, at the dawning of the commercialization of the Internet, someone described the POTS (the Plain Ol’ Telephone System) as the biggest machine ever made. It spanned the globe. It reached into virtually every home and business in the developed world. And it was all one — it was all […]