Recent content by Brad Sallows

What I quoted: "To be honest, I don't have a lot of faith in today's boards and CEO, they are far to beholden to shareholders and dividends." What I wrote: "Who else should they be beholden to but the owners, which is what the shareholders are?" Is it really that hard to figure out who "they"...

No. "Who else should they be beholden to but the owners, which is what the shareholders are?" I'm writing about the set of publicly traded companies with shareholders, which is finite.

"Supposed". Openly celebrating a change of government tarnishes that lofty aspiration.

"Any" is a universe of limitless possibilities. Maybe narrow it down.

To buy European is to buy from some other country's protected defence industry anyways. Might as well have our own.

Foreign direct investment is a customary balance-of-trade balancing factor.

They should never, never have "civic or social obligations", which is a term of art so vague as to create unbounded opportunities for activist mischief. (I completely understand why people like to use that language, and completely despise dishonest attempts to set a frame for discourse in which...

Yes. What do you think "US assets" means? "(oil)" describes the character of the assets.

Applies to many communities throughout the province. Another "win" for centralized decision-making would-be technocrats who conceive a solution with limited applicability in particular circumstances and impose it everywhere.

Any number of municipalities/districts. Of course the point is that if you wouldn't like it being done to you at a cost to your finances, you shouldn't want it done to anyone else.

The claim that Venezuela expropriated US (oil) assets is mundane and documented, not lunatic. Theoretically, compensation paid by Venezuela should make the problem go away.

A problem with always focusing on "Trump" as the root of a trade issue is it tends to remove the burden of thinking about and realizing to what extent a majority in Congress also holds the position. They're getting what they seek without having to take any flak.

Who else should they be beholden to but the owners, which is what the shareholders are? What would be the reaction of any property owner if a functionary of the local government showed up with a list of demands because a bunch of activists had successfully lobbied city council to force property...

You'd first have to assume the targeting process and the CG search process followed exactly the same rules, which is not a reasonable or likely assumption.

Flipping the House doesn't change enough. If the Senate is still Republican, Democrats in the House will do what they usually do: pass a whole bunch of bills named "The Protect Puppies and Kittens Act" with embedded poison pills Republicans absolutely will not swallow, so that opinion writers...