You know when the US government measures inflation they always take out “food and fuel”. I always thought that was silly, because they constitute the major portion of the consumers usual spending. I don’t buy a house or a car every week, but you might.
Anyway, gas in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA has been hanging around the […]
One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about working in the information technology industry over the past 32 years was the newness of it. Most everything is always new and not just a different body type, but really, really new. With that environment came the youth of the people around me. At my last job I was […]
The dollar is now 1.40 to the euro. If you are in a business that deals in foreign goods you should be up on the foreign exchange rates. So, who is in the foreign goods business?
The one that comes to mind immediately is the used auto-parts business. If you have a used BMW 300 series […]
Headlines in today’s WSJ “Wal-Mart Era Wanes Amid Big Shifts in Retail” followed by an op-ed piece “The Cheap Revolution” about why Apple stumbled with the iPhone. These are two smart and nimble companies, but they have and are making mistakes. So, if these wonderful businesses are capable of strategic error because they didn’t call […]
Today a court will probably approve Homeland Security’s plan to employ small business owners as immigration police. The letters they are sending out to all businesses about social security number “no match.” Big companies have HR departments to sort these situations out. Small businesses generally have over worked owners.
The simplest thing to do will be […]
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