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The Trade Deadline Lesson

I love baseball. We’re a week from the trade deadline. Teams are texting back and forth, hunting either for the crucial piece that vaults them into the World Series or the unpolished kid who blossoms into a star a few years down the road. My team is the Chicago Cubs.

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What are YOU selling?

I’m sitting on a wooden chair at my local Starbucks next to a kiosk of snacks I’ve never seen anybody buy. I’m sipping an iced

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Pools of Money

We hear the term “private equity” tossed around every day in business. The Bloomberg ticker tells us about the giants that often go by initials

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Equal Opportunity?

I have been thinking a lot about whether America has become hopelessly stratified by wealth, race, education and all sorts of barriers that make it

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Let Me Work

I’m on vacation in the Bay Area and I’m working. Today it’s a blog, business calls, thinking about options for TMW and Graff-Pinkert. I’m in

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