Accretion Disc Blog

Tag: business

  • With Leftists You Just Can’t Win

    For … well, it seems like for ever, I’ve heard leftists complain about Wall Street and its obsession with the next quarter. Instead of basing our economy on short term profits, we need to base it on politics. Then you can call taxes “investments”. Because Congress and Presidencies always take the long view. Well, not…

  • Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

    This was my first computer: The 512 kB “Fat Mac.” With an ImageWriter, Microsoft Word and Multiplan (the predecessor of Excel), and MacPascal, it set me back about $2,500. That was 1985 money, so it would be somewhere around $5,000 today.) I was living in Albuquerque and my roommate, who drank deep of the Kool-ade,…

  • How CEOs Speak

    In (of all things) a discussion of last night’s SOTU address, Megan McArdle describes listening to CEOs talk to financial analysts on earnings calls. I never used to do that; all the times I’ve heard CEOs talk to me it was because I was one of their underlings. But one thing certainly seems to be…