Yesterday, 10 years ago Theo van gogh was brutally murdered in Amsterdam. The Dutch magazine HP/ De tijd published three columns of van Gogh about freedom of speech. People like van Gogh, Geert Wilders, Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali alle openly and loudly expressed their disagreement with the islam and fundamentalist radicalism using the scripture to […]
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Minimum wage – maximum tax
During my university education, we were taught that all what matters is shareholder value. The recent debate in the US about minimum wage is all about shareholder value. In human capital intensive industries (employing people is expensive and exhausting) shareholder value matters more than the people delivering the work being paid enough to live. Google […]
Leonardo DiCaprio Climate Summit 2014 & How Much (More) Should CEOs Make?
My feelings about the climate change happening can not be put in better words than those of Leonardo DiCaprio addressing the UN climate summit. We should act now. People are waking up slowly, we all see changes around us. It was the hottest September ever in The Netherlands. Felt like summer last few weeks. I stumbled upon […]
9/11 – what it felt like to be inside the twin towers when the attack happend
The terrorist attacks on 9/11 were truly evil. No doubt about it. It has changed our life profoundly. This post appeared on Quora (by Jonathan Weinberg, Founder and CEO of AutoSlash.com) and something I think worth reading. “I arrived for work that morning on the 77th. floor of World Trade Center tower 2 (WTC2) around […]
Protecting California
I spend all of August in California. It is the most beautiful place on earth. I can understand that many people dream of living there. I do as well. Harvey Wasserman sends me some information about the Diablo Canyon reactors which could lead to an American Fukushima and ruin one part of the world I […]
America’s mass incarceration, uprise in hate against jews & a large wall street scam
The United States is locking up its population. The main ethnic group in prison are black people. It does not look good for the land of opportunities if you look at those two statistics alone: Millions and millions people are being warehoused. And many of those are black. Are black people committing more crimes than […]
America’s growing wealth gap explained by a comedian
We are increasingly playing two different games – let’s play America ball! John Oliver explains it at around 12:00….
Inequality Exposed
I have read several good article about income inequality. They are all discussing a new book by Thomas Piketty (Professor at the Paris School of Economics) with the title: Capital in the Twenty-First Century I work with data all day and his analysis of a century of (income) data makes it very clear what we […]
Food stamps vs Sotheby’s
I found those two charts. First one shows Sotheby’s peaking with every financial bubble in past. A few days ago there was an all time high auction. The second one shows that more and more people are dependent on food stamps since 2007. Guess I must not need to say more. As there are 45 […]