Monthly Archives: November 2020

Volvo announces first fully-electric heavy-duty truck

Meanwhile, regardless of who will be in the White House, Volvo Group, the world’s second-largest truckmaker, announced today that electric heavy-duty trucks with a range of up to 300km will go on sale next year and enter production in 2022.  … Continue reading

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Shilling: The Nifty Fifty have a message for the tech obsessed

A. Gary Shilling’s November Insight (subscription only) compares the recent FAANG mania with the Nifty Fifty mania of the 1970s and the last tech mania of the late 1990s.  His recent BNN article shares some of the highlights, see The … Continue reading

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PBS FRONTLINE: Amazon Empire

This documentary is a worthwhile watch and useful reminder about how rapidly technology transforms whole sectors of the economy with different winners and losers in each phase.  Nothing is static.  As Charles Darwin observed “It is not the strongest or … Continue reading

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