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  • The Great A&P Revisited

    When it was published back in 2011, many readers took my book The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America as an allegory about Walmart: the battle…

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  • On Paul Volcker

    A dozen years after anyone in the United States last got worked up about inflation, it’s hard to remind people what it is that made Paul Volcker so important. The…

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  • Too Damn Big

    Not too long ago, I had a chat with a high-ranking executive at a major container shipping line. The subject was new ships. “Those guys on the operating side always…

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