by michael.m | Jun 10, 2017 | Economics and Finance, Ideas, Michael's Articles
Uber and Lyft have continued to disrupt patterns in the transportation grid, primarily in the cab business. I can speak from personal experience on a trip to Miami. Cab driver = rude, dangerous, expensive. Uber driver=courteous, inexpensive, clean, safe. I was...
by michael.m | Jun 6, 2017 | Ideas, Michael's Articles, World War II
June 6th, 1944. The Invasion of Normandy when World War II hung in the balance. By the end of this day – “The Longest Day” – over four thousand lay dead on the cold beaches of France in Hitler’s “Festung Europa” –...
by michael.m | Jun 3, 2017 | Economics and Finance, Ideas, Michael's Articles
In the last week, headlines have captured a number of economic disruptions in the government and infrastructure fabric that will bring dire cicumstances in the near future: Puerto Rico – the bombshell of incompetence and mismanagement. Puerto Rico owes a ton...
by michael.m | Jun 3, 2017 | Ideas, Michael's Articles
I have studied martial arts for most of my life, recently Kenpo Karate under the Grandmaster Ed Parker system with 8th Degree Bryan Hawkins. You can see him above teaching the first Yellow Belt technique – “Delayed Sword”. What is my Martial Arts...
by michael.m | Feb 26, 2017 | Michael's Articles
Our Heroes are everywhere. They pass by us at the market. They work for us. They walk our streets. I’m talking about the men and women of our Armed Forces who serve and have served our country ably, courageously and without acclaim. We all know one such individual....
by michael.m | Feb 26, 2017 | Fiction I've Worked On, Michael's Articles, Stealing Thunder Series
China is asserting itself on the world stage but with a 21st Century strategy. Striving to resurrect its former glory as a power after a century of foreign domination, World War and Mao’s murderous Cultural Revolution, China’s socialist dictators realize that their...