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October 31, 2026 ・Original Analysis

Inflation v. Desk Jobs

Inflation has taken the shine out of every form of investment other than physical assets and entrepreneurship. The dramatic increases in the cost of housing, living, and relatively slow increase of standard wages have created a liquidity-constrained situation for retail investors, and also made the stores of that liquidity continually less appealing. When adjusting for […]

September 29, 2026 ・Original Analysis

Entrepreneurship as the Pursuit of Beauty

Entrepreneurship is at its core nothing more than the pursuit of beauty. Although an entrepreneur shares many activities with an employee, the nature of the activity is oriented towards beauty rather than anything else. This is not merely a philosophical preference, but rather the nature of entrepreneurship itself. Beauty is, while not necessarily definable, recognizable […]

September 28, 2026 ・Original Analysis

The Crisis of Ownership

In 1775 roughly 80% of Americans owned their own businesses. Most of these were farmers, and their responsibility to the nation became deeply intertwined with their own livelihoods as they owned a bit of earth and let their love of self turn into love of country. They planted the seeds of survival and reaped the […]