"A smear artist told me that nearly every image that crosses your path on a daily basis... was put there for a reason, often by someone who paid a lot of money for it to be there..."
It is perhaps poetic justice that not long after Starbucks became one of the world's biggest virtue signalers, shortly after it decided to become the world's biggest public toilet, the company released its most disappointing guidance in years.
"Political Correctness acts as a filter for sifting out thought that doesn’t conform to orthodox ideology, and for punishing those who dare to express the filtered-out ideas... it is literally thought-policing. It’s hard to imagine anyone being in favor of that..."
" Seattle has pretty much been in a permabull market since the early nineties... But somewhere along the line, the politics in Seattle took a left turn. Or should I say, a red turn. Kshama Sawant has been a city council member since 2014. She is definitely a socialist, and a little less warm and fuzzy than Bernie Sanders."
Shake Shack has become the latest fast food purveyor to experiment with order kiosks, which the company said will help it minimize what it called its "largest P&L headwind": people.
"The SEC gives an exemption from market-manipulation rules to companies doing a buyback. The SEC shouldn’t be making it easier for executives to use them to cash out."
