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The Three-Martini Greyhound: The Future of Corporate Travel?

July 19, 2021July 16, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, amtrak michigan, corporate travel, flying, greyhound, in-flight wifi, intercity buses, intercity trains, new normal, optimization, productivity, reopening, surplus value, the dog, travel, tsa, tsa precheck, wolverine service

In June, my partner took a three-day business trip– her first since before the pandemic hit- to Chicago. I threw

Business & Economics Mobility Culture & Language

Sidebar: GM Says They’re Serious About Electrification? Prove It.

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments belle isle, belle isle detroit, belle isle grand prix, bud denker, cadillac lyriq, car culture, cars, Electric cars, F-150 Super Duty State of Mind, find new roads, general motors, GM, grand prix, lear, lear corporation, mary barra, michigan accent, range anxiety, rick waggoner, roger penske, sunburn, sunscreen, triple zero, who killed the electric car

GM talks about its commitment to electrification, and then displays a spread of exclusively gas-powered cars at the Belle Isle Grand Prix.

Business & Economics Finance Politics Finance Energy

You’ve Heard Of Socially Responsible Investing. Now Get Ready For… Socially Irresponsible Investing?!

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2ndvote, candace owens, christianity, conservative christianity, doge, doge to the moon, dogecoin to the moon, ETF, evangelicalism, exchange-traded fund, jacki daily, jason isaac, jeanine pirro, judge jeanine, markets, stock market, stocks, stonk, stonks, texas, texas public policy foundation, tppf

A new conservative investment fund seeks to invest in “socially conservative” products, identifying a market of interested, “un-woke” investors. The only problem? Well, turns out the most profitable companies are all actually pretty socially liberal.

Business & Economics Mobility Energy Automotive

EV Charging Networks: Drive Infrastructure, Not Just Cars

June 8, 2021June 7, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments acquisition, ampacity, battery storage, chevrolet bolt, chevrolet volt, distributed energy resources, distributed generation, electric grid, electric panel, EV chargers at home, EV charging infrastructure, ev charging networks, general motors, GM, grid storage, insourcing, level 1 charger, level 2 charger, level 3 charger, li-ion, lithium-ion battery, load center, outsourcing, photovoltaics, power grid, public ev charger, public ev charging networks, rick waggoner, rooftop solar, utility-scale battery storage, utility-scale solar, v2g, vehicle-to-grid, vehicle-to-grid connectivity, who killed the electric car

A few weeks ago, I had a chat with some folks from A Major Automaker, one of the Big Two-And-A-Half,

Business & Economics Energy Utilities

In Pursuit of Exelonce, Perhaps To Exel-Twice

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments exelon, pepco

Nat’s new job!

Business & Economics Politics Policy

Regressive Politics Seem Bad For Economic Growth. Can We Prove It?

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020 Election, 3/5 compromise, alabama, alaska landmine, anti-trans legislation, arkansas, blue state, concentration of fortune 500 companies by state, corporate incentives, corporate tax rates, Donald Trump, economic development incentives, economic growth, elon musk, fiscal conservatism, fiscally conservative socially liberal, fortune 500, fortune 500 companies, growth, infrastructure and economic growth, kay ivey, MAUP, mike dunleavy, mississippi, red state, republican policy, tate reeves, tax rates, taxation without representation, transphobia, trump, trump deficit, trump national debt, voter fraud, voter fraud 2020, voter ID laws, voter restrictions, voting restrictions, Warren Buffett, where are the most fortune 500 companies located

The Supreme Court’s recent announcement that it will hear a case about draconian abortion restrictions in Mississippi led me to

Business & Economics Tech

Bitcoin and the Energy Illogic of Cryptocurrency

May 19, 2021May 19, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bitcoin, bitcoin SV, blockchain, BTC, coinbase, coinmarketcap, crypto, cryptocurrency, cryptographhy, energy, ETH, ethereum, kilowatts, kola nuts

The price collapse of Bitcoin today raises some valuable questions about the value– and environmental impact- of continuing to use it and mine it.

Public Safety Infrastructure Small Business Streetscaping

New Grand River Streetscaping: Safer, Slower, Greener

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike lanes, black-owned business, crosswalk, crosswalks, Detroit, effect of streetscaping on public safety, garden stores, gardening, gardening store, gilmour garden tools, grand army of the republic building detroit, grand river, grand river avenue, grandmont-rosedale, highland park, home depot, local business, maumee lake region, native plants, neighborhood investment, north rosedale park, pages bookshop, pedestrian safety, public safety, raised crosswalks, street safety, streetscaping and public safety, tina castleberry, traffic violence

New streetscaping improvements have turned portions of Grand River Avenue, on Detroit’s West Side, from a street-level freeway into something more closely resembling a real city street that people might be able to safely hang out and shop on.

Business & Economics Urban Planning Transit infrastructure Infrastructure

Michigan Population Numbers: How Long Before We Just Admit That This Strategy Isn’t Working?

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1837 border war, add lane miles, aging population, big two and a half, chaldeans, chrysler, Congress, congressional seats, fca, fiat chrysler, Ford, ford motor company, funding infrastructure, general motors, GM, Gretchen Whitmer, growth, infrastructure, infrastructure and economic growth, infrastructure investment, japan, level-of-service, matt maddock, mdot, meshawn maddock, michigan, michigan legislature, ohio, population decline, population growth, rail, rail infrastructure, refugees, rightsizing, rightsizing cities, rightsizing infrastructure, shrinking cities, stellantis, tokyo, toledo border war, transit, trucks, trump, US Congress, vmt, vmt reduction, whitmer

The census numbers are in, and we’re unsurprised to learn that population growth is stagnant in parts of the great,

Business & Economics Consumer Products

AliExpress: The New Amazon? Or, Close, But No Cigar?

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ali, ali cloud, alibaba, alibaba vs. aliexpress, aliexpress, amazon, amazon distribution center, backmarket, cainiao, capitalism, china, consumer culture, consumerism, coupang, distribution, ecommerce, eRetail, free market, late capitalism, logistics, mass consumption, PRC, products, retailers, supply chain, TPP, trade, trade relations, trans-pacific partnership, US China relations, us china trade war, US-China trade, value density, value density by volume, value density by weight, value density per volume, warehouse, world trade organization, WTO

An exhaustive review of AliExpress, the Chinese Amazon and the “foreign office” of global giant AliBaba.

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