Your Scrap Tungsten Carbide Is a National Security Question, Nick Stevens and Joey Marks–EP 268
While his nine-year-old son was fighting stage three cancer, Nick Stevens was driving around buying up scrap tungsten carbide just to keep food on the table. It worked well enough that one day, sitting in the hospital room, his son said to him: “Dad, why don’t you just start your
The Color of Law
It’s been 150 years since the end of the Civil War and 50 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Act. However we still
It’s Tough to be the King
Jeff Immelt, head of General Electric Corporation, is getting the boot as head of the company. Travis Kalanick is being asked to step aside as
The “What if” Question
I have spent my entire business life identifying price anomalies and taking advantage of them to make money. “Buy low, sell high” is my secular
Tools of Justice
It’s the American Horatio Alger story. Invent the next Xerox machine and get rich. Or get screwed. Dan Brown was a smart Irish kid from
47 Years
Today is my 47th wedding anniversary. “So what?” you may say. But if you have some curiosity about the marriage of a blogging trader in
Feeling Steady?
I talk to clients in the machining business almost every day. I often ask the perfunctory question, “How’s business?” and I usually get the perfunctory