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Expert witness in nearly all areas of business: finance, marketing, management, compensation, ethics...Author of 11 books on money and commerce

Interests: Licensed Pilot Single Engine Sailor Skier Welder Chinese Martial Arts student Motorcycles

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I was there at the beginning of the Beatnik movement, the hippie movement, and the Whole Earth Catalog. The Beats were mostly in New York and San Francisco. I went to the U. of Chicago, in the geographic middle, in August of 1955 and was in the male dormitories in 1957 for six months. For reasons I still don’t understand,... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2025 at Pro Commerce

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Where the Ultra Rich Came From

The ultra-rich, our billionaires, are in for a great deal of antagonism. However, only a few hundred people know where they came from and no one seems to have written about it. I see two sources, and a combination of the two. A). One came from the genius of Harold Geneen, who became President of International Telephone and Telegraph Company... Continue reading

Posted Feb 13, 2025 at Pro Commerce

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The Democrat Party is Gone

The Democrat Party was gone, officially, in 2020 when it could not field a single viable candidate. Of course people still vote the way their parents did. It can go on for a few years as it did with the Whigs. There were three Democrat Party pseudo candidates: Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Harris got less than 5%... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2025 at Pro Commerce

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Better Economics

I earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley but never got the degree because: I lacked the two languages required at the time, the entire department was in love with Fidel Castro while I was on the campaign staff of Richard Nixon and I had my doubts about many parts of the economics teachings. I left Berkeley and over... Continue reading

Posted Jan 20, 2025 at Pro Commerce

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Biden Almost Killed Me

In the Fall of 1991, I was riding in a taxi down K Street in Washington, D.C. on a Saturday when the Senate hearings on Judge Thomas were underway. I was going to a board meeting of a group I was associated with for seven years. A global third world funding project called Appropriate Technology International. The driver was an... Continue reading

Posted Jan 6, 2025 at Pro Commerce

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Japanese Think Tank

I’ve worked for several think tanks around the world. American, French, Dutch, and Swedish but the most unique and interesting was the one in Japan where I was a partner. It was called Dynax and there were only two of us principals. For the first few years, in the early 1990’s, we had a translator since neither Takakawa san nor... Continue reading

Posted Dec 23, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Jewish Community Organizations Fail

San Francisco State University is in a financial crisis. The number of students applying and entering has dropped significantly in this century but the school has been unable to demand more money from the State or to cut expenses sufficiently. I blame the Jews. I’m being facetious. Not Jews but the Jewish community organizations. In the mid 1990s I got... Continue reading

Posted Dec 2, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Power vs God, the Wokie View

About fifty years ago I did a small survey and found that there were four categories of primary universal action as viewed by Americans. About 50% of adults viewed some (1) sort of god as the prime mover, 20% saw (2) power as the prime mover, 25% saw (3) money as the prime mover and 5% had other categories. Under... Continue reading

Posted Nov 4, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Spontaneous Commerce

When Airbnb was first started in San Francisco, I had three friends who immediately got into the business. Does that mean anything to you? One was a game developer, no surprise. He bought three condos and rented them out. The second was a salaryman who bought five houses in New Orleans with the intention of moving there to rent them... Continue reading

Posted Oct 28, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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I understood Google more than a decade before it existed. Better than it understands itself today. In 1986 I published a book titled Marketing Without Advertising, based on a course I taught for eight years in my Noren Small Business Institute. It became the third largest selling marketing book in English over the next two decades and sold a 6th... Continue reading

Posted Oct 21, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Jew Hate in America

I’ve lived with Jew hate for several parts of my life. I was in an El Paso elementary school from 1946 to 1949. The Mexican kids would follow me home from school and throw rocks at me whenever the Dominican traveling priests came to Juarez to denounce Jews. Fortunately I was a fast runner. The Roman Catholic hatred of Jews... Continue reading

Posted Oct 7, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Spontaneous Commerce

When Airbnb was first started in San Francisco, I had three friends who immediately got into the business. Does that mean anything to you? One was a game developer, no surprise. He bought three condos and rented them out. The second was a salaryman who bought five houses in New Orleans with the intention of moving there to rent them... Continue reading

Posted Oct 1, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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One Man Is Now What Matters

You should know this name by now: Robby Starbuck. One person with the power of the modern social media, the visual media, and the right idea can now have new political power never before imagined. Robby Starbuck, understands America’s core values, primarily because his parents escaped from Cuba. He realized that the ‘woke movement’ to replace the business value of... Continue reading

Posted Sep 23, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Envy of the Rich is the Core of the American Left

I have to tell you that I neither have envy for the rich, including the really rich, nor do I think they have political power. The core thinking of the Left is the idea that the distance between the rich and poor is unjust. I have personally never had that view. Early on it was for one reason; later in... Continue reading

Posted Sep 16, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Civil War Problem

I agree with many people that we have the right emotional conditions for a civil war. Personally, there are many times in the past 5 years I would have gone out with a rifle and pistol to shoot the ‘woke’ media and government people. Elon Musk and others are right; we have been ripe for a civil war for many... Continue reading

Posted Aug 27, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Who Can You Trust?

The Internet has changed our world in the most fundamental fashion. We no longer have trust in any of the large cacophony of information that we receive. The most authoritative sources are widely distrusted. My son calls this the ‘collapse of narrative.’ How can you trust anything when contradictory information is just a click away and virtually every institution has... Continue reading

Posted Aug 12, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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In the New Revolution, Teach Commerce

The revolution in higher education is coming. There will soon be several new and very high quality universities that will protect and appreciate Jews. It will be important to teach the realities of commerce. There is no such thing as ‘capitalism.’ There is only ‘commerce.’ ‘Capitalism’ is a term that comes from Karl Marx who had an erroneous theory of... Continue reading

Posted Jul 19, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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PEOPLES Temple and Jim Jones

Most people in the world don’t know that Jim Jones, of the famous ‘Drink the Kool-Aid’ and Guyana mass suicide of over 900 people, was a communist. I knew Jim Jones, personally, and interacted with him over the years he was in San Francisco. I heard one or two of his sermons. Jim Jones was a Marxist. He was 100%... Continue reading

Posted Jul 10, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Does America Always Lose the War?

We may have a very distorted view of our own history. Do we always lose our wars? Independence Start with our War of Independence. Did we win? Britain gave up. Really France won. The Treaty of Paris 1783 makes it clear. France as the winner was given Senegal and Tobago by Britain. The Colonies agreed to leave the Crown but... Continue reading

Posted Jun 22, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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When Republicans controlled the Presidency and Congress we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. I tried to get the nation to celebrate the 100th and 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the 14th Amendment but nothing happened because Democrats controlled both the Presidency and Congress. Sorry folks I contacted Black leaders (many of whom... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Humans vibrate. There appears to be two types of vibration. One is the vibration that is the speed at which one lives one’s life. I know this from the large number of women I have dated and spent intimate time with. This type of vibration is very subtle but very real. If it were measured on a scale around 10... Continue reading

Posted Jun 13, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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The Real Nakba and Colonialism

Somehow the world needs a good lesson in Middle Eastern history. Palestinians and a million other misinformed people think that when the newly founded state of Israel was forced to fight off five well-established and well-armed Arab enemy nations, that the Arabs living in the new state of Israel were driven out. Absolutely false. The resident Arabs were told to... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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What Destroyed California and San Francisco?

Term limits and small districts. I’ve watched California go from a Republican state to a super-majority Democrat one. I was close to politics all that time. I finally figured out what happened. I watched the change in the legislatures as Assemblyman Jesse Unruh took over the Democrat Party from 1961. In those days I was an Assembly Legislative Analyst running... Continue reading

Posted May 26, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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Don’t Do What You Love

There has been a recent flurry of articles on the subject ‘Don’t do what you love.’ This is pretty much in response to an unattributed popular phrase ‘Follow your passion’ or its earlier version ‘Do what you love and the money will follow.’ As the father of this idea, I feel compelled to comment. I introduced this idea to the... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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What I KNOW and Most Don’t

Why don’t we have flying cars or jet packs? What was the surface temperature of the earth in 1950? Why did inflation begin on 1/20/21? What single man created the modern world? Did the Dutch army ever completely defeat Britain? Why don’t we have flying cars or jet packs? Anyone who can watch a butterfly or look at a tree... Continue reading

Posted May 5, 2024 at Pro Commerce

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