Even though I know that diamonds are common and that the value of diamonds is based on false-scarcity and multi-billion-dollar global marketing campaigns, I still want to buy my future wife a big-ass Tiffany solitaire.  However, diamonds are losing value like a lead brick, so even the biggest profi...

Breaking the walled garden? It is still early stage but it is getting clear that the phone is no longer an application itself, it has become a platform supporting other applications. Before the iPhone hardly anyone ever downloaded an application, but it's getting more common today. The new app store...

I used to have a lot of respect for Robert Rubin. But not any more. This is garbage of the worst kind. Barry and Mish have the appropriate outraged responses. But Barry has the best line: Thus, today Mr. Rubin officially gets moved out of the column of intellectual heavyweights, and into the big “...

Reader Brad pointed to an article titled “U.S. vs. Global Markets: Pain is Where You Feel It.� Here is an excerpt: For months now, the entire media and the financial blogsphere has been talking about how dismal the U.S. financial markets have been. There is a tendency to believe that we are at t...

It seems the “Right on Lake Street” exhibit created by Macalester students in conjunction with the Minnesota Historical Society has moved from the Minnesota History Center and is now at the Midtown Global Market! I wish I had known. I wouldn’t have spent the $10 to see it at the Hi...