Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney Blog

The Dodgers have been a team of legend in the United States since 1928.

The Dodgers won the World Series, when led by Jackie Robinson, the first black major-league baseball player.

The Dodgers rivaled the Yankees during a golden age of baseball in the United States.

And now it looks as though the Dodgers may have a new owner: the Government of China.

A 1.8 billion dollar cash offer has reportedly been made to Frank McCourt by a group backed by Chinese Government-backed investment banks.

Investors fail, and banks fail.

Will we see the day when the Dodgers are owned by the Chinese Government?

Makes you wonder about that whole Globalism Thing, you know?

The world is changing in a lot of ways that I like, and a lot of ways that I don't like.

I love it that everybody in sight can connect with everybody else on the Internet, and I don't like it that inflation and unemployment and outsourcing continue to drive consumer bankruptcy and business bankruptcy cases in Arizona, and everyplace else.

But I love this: while the Dodgers may be in a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, with their eventual fate hanging on the gavel of a Maryland Bankruptcy Judge, the Dodgers still thought it was a good idea to have "Blogger's Night", where Dodgers fans who blog about them get to watch the team play, and meet the team.

Frankly, that strikes me as a very good management decision.

While Gutenberg made it possible to record all the information discovered by mankind, bloggers, along with search engines, make it possible to find all that information, and to understand it!

And previously, publishers were a necessary part of the equation, but not since e-books overtook physical books in the publishing world.

Amazon deserves a round of applause for that development.

Because there are few areas that unemployment hasn't hit hard in the United States, and job statistics aren't just disappointing; they're tragic.

But one area where people can make jobs for themselves, after they invent themselves into experts by blogging, is writing e-books and selling them on Amazon.

According to a buddy of mine, who is the author of 17 published works, Amazon pays authors far more per book sale than traditional publishers.

So some folks, after their bankruptcy cases, will get to write the Great American Novel, and become as rich as J.K. Rowling!

So technology has created at least one bright spot in an awful job market, and it's a bright spot that doesn't even require kissing a publisher to get published!

p.s. a buddy of mine, Rick Cook, will be publishing his new e-book in a few days. The working title is "Shift Happens". When it comes out, I'll buy a copy and tell you to buy it. Why? Well, he has always done a great job of predicting the future, and that's a valuable slice of knowledge to have in these troubled economic times!