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Independence Day in America Circa 2021
The days are long and hot in the Northern Hemisphere when real American patriots spit upon their hands and hoist the stars and stripes. On July 4th, the free and brave, with duty and self-sacrifice, begrudgingly accept federal holiday pay to stand tall upon their own two feet. Rugged individualism and uncompromising independence are essential to their character. Continue reading
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Tagged creative destruction, independence day, joseph schumpeter, steve rocco, world industries
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Something Worth Striving For
The days are long and hot in the Northern Hemisphere when real American patriots spit upon their hands and hoist the stars and stripes. On July 4, the free and brave, with duty and self-sacrifice, begrudgingly accept federal holiday pay to stand tall upon their own two feet. Rugged individualism and uncompromising independence are essential to their character. Continue reading
Posted in Economy, MN Gordon
Tagged creative destruction, freedom, independence day, liberty, steve rocco, world industries
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Independence Day in America Circa 2019
In the early 1990s, Steve Rocco, a scrub freestyle skater from Hermosa Beach, delivered an epic haymaker to the corporate skateboard industry. On a shoe string budget, financed with predator loans from a shark named Kirby, Rocco rapidly took down the big three skate companies that, in hindsight, had grown fat and stale. In a classic case of Joseph Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction,” he revolutionized the industry and subculture. Continue reading
Celebrating this Land of Absurdity
“Myths and legends die hard in America,” remarked Hunter S. Thompson in The Great Shark Hunt, nearly 40-years ago. Thompson didn’t likely have U.S. Treasury bonds in mind when he made this observation. Though, if he were still alive, he … Continue reading
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Tagged american folklore, federal register, freedom, hunter s thompson, independence day, liberty
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