Right on Business

In today's entirely unscripted episode, we discuss the moralization and normativization of political language and discourse. Today, right and wrong, black and white, and other false dichotomies, forced binaries, and unhealthy dualisms are tearing our nation apart. How do we navigate the current political landscape where right and wrong are anchored in power not principle, where principles and values are not static, but change for no other reason but to dominate the Other and demonize the opposition? 

In today's episode, we discuss Vice President Biden's path to November, the value Senator Kamala Harris brings to his campaign, the DNC Convention and the mail-in balloting controversy. Like most discussions about the coming election, we acknowledge that there's more to dislike than to like, and wonder if the entire framework of our democracy needs to be rethought for the 21st century to ensure equal justice and liberty for all.

This week, we talk with Rich Hebron, author and podcast host who unpacks his experiences living homeless in Chicago, nearly dying in a tractor fire, and embracing life as an autodidact. In a wide ranging conversation that serves as a natural follow up on last week's discussion on philosophy in business, we discuss everything from philosophy to reading to art to the future of capitalism to the meaning of life. 

This week, we talk with Rich Hebron, author and podcast host who unpacks his experiences living homeless in Chicago, nearly dying in a tractor fire, and embracing life as an autodidact. In a wide ranging conversation that serves as a natural follow up on last week's discussion on philosophy in business, we discuss everything from philosophy to reading to art to the future of capitalism to the meaning of life. 

In this week's episode, we discuss how philosophy and the humanities can help people excel in business and in life. Despite the focus on STEM and other subjects society perceives to be more practical, philosophy and the humanities can help people become better leaders, better innovators, better managers, and more resilient professionals in the age of automation and Covid.

Today, we walk through some of former Vice President Joe Biden's economic and trade policies as espoused on his website. After diving in for the first time in real-time, we discover that Mr. Biden's policies are not that different from President Trump's on specific issues, such as American manufacturing, foreign trade, and the future of the U.S. economy. Both are largely protectionist, with a hint of nationalism, leading us to believe that this messaging will become more prominent in the final months of the election as Mr. Biden looks to court blue collar independents, the people who elected President Trump and President Obama before him. 

In today's episode, we talk about a wide range of issues related to Covid's impact on the 2020 election. We focus on how controversies like mail-in ballots and President Trump's inaction on Covid might affect the outcome of the election, and make a few predictions that will merit further discussion in future episodes.

In this episode, we dig into doomsday preppers, a now-global phenomenon that's more relevant than ever given the tremendous amount of social and economic uncertainty facing us today. Are preppers nuts or prescient? Why is prepping important today? What are some considerations for those looking to become silent preppers, people who want to be prepared but don't let prepping consume them? We discuss.

In this week's episode, we discuss the global revolt against prevailing institutions and the growing desire to forget, or even outright annihilate, history. Using analogies from the evolution of Christianity, we conclude that the desire to forget the past, however abhorrent, is also because we as a nation don't see a certain future. If we aren't happy with where we are and don't know where we're going, all we can do is be frustrated with where we've been. 

In this week's episode, we discuss the growing popularity of retail stock investing platforms like Robinhood and the heard mentality among retail investors that is driving up the prices of various stocks in ways that are likely unsustainable. This creates a precarious scenario that may lead to large losses for many unsophisticated, inexperienced, or first time investors. Part of the popularity of the digital platforms facilitating this rise in retail investing is due to their gamification elements, which create the dangerous impression that investing is a game. Investing is not a game and not something people should engage in without first educating themselves on the mechanics of investing in public equities, the role of the stock market in society, and the potential consequences of trading stocks.