psychology

I had an epiphany of sorts this morning and I wanted to run the insight by you. Here's what I decided: just maybe the Internet is responsible for a lot of the increasing polarization we see online. Here's how I came to that conclusion.…

The last post I wrote was from a Republican partisan perspective. And it told a story about Trump remaking the party in his image. I will have more to say about that later from a non-partisan view. But, right now, I want to focus on…

I want to run something by you that has been on my mind since Saturday because it hits on some of the themes I have been writing about in my journalism and media posts for the past couple of months. Suspension of disbelief and troll…

Ok I tried. I went into the political arena. And doing so reaffirmed for me why I steer clear. This is just a brief note to tell you why. Let me frame it this way: What if I told you that I thought a lack of civic responsibility of…

People have a bias toward belief. And in the virtual world where the Internet dominates news sources, this has big consequences.

People are now talking about a trade war. But How will Trump implement his tariff plan? Who will the targets be? How will they respond? What will the economic and political ramifications be? We simply don't know. There will be great…

Technological disruption poses serious threats to incumbent businesses. Here are two examples from Artificial intelligence and Walmart's earnings showing how this disruption occurs.

Rotating into emerging market equities as the US market soars is Jeremy Grantham's recommendation. That's a daunting prospect for most US retail investors. Here's why.

With Donald Trump set to give his State of the Union address, Democrats and Independents have gone from positive in 2017 to negative in 2018, while Republicans have gone in the other direction.

We see economic growth everywhere in the global economy for the first time in many years. Let's put this economic period in context and talk about opportunities and threats.