Pro Commerce

What is my blog about?

One of my loyal readers suggests in a comment on an earlier blog that I should focus more on commerce. He notes my periodic focus on Jews and Israel.  I actually have two other blogs, one on marketing and one on issues relating to my book Commerce (I don't write in them often).

So what am I blogging about here and what do Jews have to do with it?

I'm blogging about my unique experience as founder of the first and largest business network: the Briarpatch which was active for a dozen years and had over 600 member businesses at its peak. I have been a business consultant to over two thousand businesses, including Briarpatch businesses, in all parts of the world including several of the worlds largest corporations.

I am blogging about the nature of commerce.  The material is fully explicated in my book Commerce which is in paper and online.  I am adding to the observations in the book. 

My blog is not 'actionable' as my friend Hans says.  You can't invest in anything based on this blog, or sell for that matter.

Commerce is the source of the modern world....our bountiful health, technology and freedom are the fruits of commerce.  Commerce has a direction.  The more meritocratic a society is, the more open and honest a society is, the more diverse, the more market oriented, the more welcoming to innovation and the more technologically oriented a society is the more commerce will thrive.  The converse is also true.

Some of my blogs are focused on Lefties (I'm negative about the Left), others on Jews and Israel.

The single most coherent ideology of the Left, now that communism and making the New Man have failed, is anti-commerce.  The Left is an accretion of many anti-commerce vistas from environmentalism, anarchism, anti-globalism, Ludditism to everything else left in the dust bin of history.

The Jews and Israel are the canary in the cage for the pro commerce world.  If people hate Jews or Israel they hate commerce.  The three circles are 99.76% congruent.  Israel is the second most effective, efficient and innovative society on the planet behind the U.S. and ahead of Japan. (See the Singer/Senor book Start-up Nation). Anti-Americanism and anti-Japan are also just as anti-commerce as anti-Jew and anti-Israel.

Jews are not the only commercially successful people on the planet, there are many others including the Japanese, the Overseas Chinese and the Scots.  I report on the mistreatment of these other groups when they happen. Nothing currently matches the global level of Jew hate (article on the new Yale center to study this issue).

If I were an Arab or part Arab my pro commerce blog would often complain about the absence of meritocracy, innovation, openness or honesty in Arab society.

Summary of my blogs June 15 to 30

Check out yesterday's blog about the reason our leaders look so stupid when we know what they don't.  They aren't stupid of course, they have less reliable sources than the Internet.

Business people have been rising in social status in the past century in America and to some extent elsewhere.  It is time to put them on top. Read the comments about Singapore and Hong Kong where business people are dominant.

There is a whole set of interesting issues raised by Matt Ridley about commerce, including how much better off we are.  He raises ideas such as the commercial brain: it takes thousands of special skills to make a lead pencil.

Does Microsoft have monopoly power and is that possible in the modern business world?  My answer is 'no'.

What is the really major divide in America? We forget the big one, the East Coast elite and the rest of us.