Bob Johnson

Jul 1, 2024 | duluthnewstribune.com | Bob Johnson

Politicians projecting an image of themselves that’s not entirely accurate is nothing new. Try as she does with her always-on media presence, Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is apparently no different. This seems especially true when it comes to health care programs older Minnesotans rely on and reigning in large integrated corporations.

Nov 22, 2023 | dailykos.com | Bob Johnson

Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023 Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 6:59:05a GMT American rock icons target of jihadist attack...

Nov 9, 2023 | dailykos.com | Bob Johnson

Last night, Washington Post editors decided that they needed 12 reporters live-blogging the Republican non-event. Twelve! In addition, five of their right-leaning columnists ran a separate live-blog, bringing the total number of writers devoted to the irrelevant gathering to 17.  And today brings (so far) eight articles about last night's meaningless get-together with more probably in the works. Why? The five candidates on the stage last night are going nowhere.

Aug 1, 2023 | powells.com | Shirley Hazzard |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Bob Johnson |Upton Sinclair

When I started writing Mobility, I was interested in describing life from the perspective of a teenage girl in a place that’s unfamiliar to her, applying her fairly stereotypical teen interests to a very adult setting — the oil rush in newly independent Azerbaijan in the late 1990s, when representatives of multinational oil companies and freelance mercenaries flooded the former Soviet Union to capitalize on the spoils of its dissolution.

May 11, 2023 | thestreet.com | Bob Johnson

By Bob JohnsonAs long-time shareholders, my good friend Keith Hickerson and I walked out of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual meeting last Saturday with smiles on our faces and a great deal of optimism about the financial markets and our investments. The next day we saw a litany of articles quoting Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger about the precarious state of the U.S. economy and financial markets. Reading those articles without context would seemingly push an investor to exit risk assets.