Mike Duggan’s Value Destruction Saga Continues
Today, the city of Detroit began demolition of the former Federal Department Store, a.k.a. the Mammoth Department Store, at the
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Author: Nat M. Zorach
What Early GDP Numbers Are Saying
An unprecedented collapse in international imports in the second quarter meant that US consumers were … well, still spending plenty of money importing things from foreign countries!
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Affordable Housing Crisis: Why Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)?
The ADU is everything good about tiny house, without the contextual vacuum. Is it enough to solve the housing crisis? Perhaps not, but it’s a significant enough tool in the toolkit that everyone should think about it.
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The Big, Beautiful Trade Deals That Aren’t.
Trump continues to tout the value of trade deals, even though we’re now paying billions more in tariffs– that we weren’t paying a year ago. It’s a sign of an increasingly chaotic environment of market information, and one that markets seem to be completely unfazed by. For now.
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Hot Empire in Decline Summer
The coneflowers, the monarda, and a multitude of pollinator friends have taken over the yard; the wildfire smoke has taken over the air; bizarre news continues to come out of DC every few hours.
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Nazi Chatbots? ANOTHER Horseman of the Apocalypse?
Elon Musk appears to have ordered the reprogramming of the Grok chatbot on the Platform Formerly Known As Twitter to describe itself as MechaHitler, and to go after everyone ranging from Will Stancil to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey.
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A World Of Undiscovered Edible Plants
Corn and soybeans account for around 87% of US agricultural production. What if we shifted some of that to growing some weird vegetables you’ve never heard of?
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Give Me Something To Work With, DTE!
DTE Energy truly offers the worst of both worlds– high prices and little to show for it in terms of reliability, energy efficiency, or clean energy.
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Scent Marketing: We Want Your Business– And Your Olfactory Receptors
Humans like smells that remind us of nature. Can corporate-led fragrance chemistry convince our primitive brains that we’re actually in nature when we’re in a hotel lobby?
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Making Sense of the Tariff Cliff
The chaotic trade declarations coming out of the White House- which resembles less strategic public policy with a defined end goal, and more unstructured bloviating for the purpose of grandstanding, is doing weird things to markets and businesses.
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