Imagine you are looking for a job and you read this ad:  “Be your own boss.  No more  9 to 5.  Work as much or as little as you like.  Earn as much as you like.”  Would you be tempted to apply?  If you did, you’d probably be entering what’s called the “gig” e

My visit with my former student from South Africa was memorable but all too brief.  We had a wonderful time exploring Portland and, as the saying goes, “by my student I was taught.” Kitty is a travel agent in Cape Town, used to finding her way in foreign places.  So, when I prop

As I wrote in an earlier blog, (Blog 5/26/16) the world is awash in personal savings accounts, what Ben Bernanke calls a “global savings glut.” (“Private Desires, by Geoff Colvin, Fortune, June, 2016, pg. 54.)  In a recent essay, Geoff Colvin points out this sea of cash is chan

Ask a member of the Millennial generation to chose between owning a smart phone or a car and, hand’s down, the majority will choose the smart phone.  All a person can do with a car is drive, but a smart phone brings the world to your fingertips.  At least that’s the view writer

Do unicorns exist? In Silicon Valley, they do.  Unicorns are tech start-ups that begin with a billion dollars or more of venture capital behind them.  In fact, there are more unicorns  there than  Harry Potter has seen in his world because, at the moment, tech is ripe with specula