It was interesting to see the contrasting headline today: Warren Buffet: There has been little progress over the past few months in the economic war being fought by the country. We haven’t got the economy moving yet. Barney Frank: Fannie
Category: Business
Sometimes, You Really Need to Listen
Little Johnny watched his daddy’s car pass by the school playground and go into the woods… Curious, he followed the car and saw Daddy and Aunt Jane in a passionate embrace. Little Johnny found this so exciting that he could
Some Interesting Quotes
With help from StrangeCosmos: 1) A day without sunshine is like night. 2) He who dies with the most toys, is, nonetheless, still dead. 3) The cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity. 4) What was the greatest thing before
Interesting Health-care Statistics
An interesting set of statistics on health-care from the Wall Street Journal: “Safeway’s plan capitalizes on two key insights gained in 2005. The first is that 70% of all health-care costs are the direct result of behavior. The second insight,
O’bama and Entrepreneurs
I think Mr Malone explained the problem with O’bamanomics best: “Entrepreneurship has been the single most important contributor to the economic health of this country for at least a century now – and if you were going to systematically destroy
The Automotive Retirement Industry
You’ve gotta love Mark Steyn… His recent comments in the National Review about the auto industry: General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small loss-making auto subsidiary. The UAW
Dayton Gems Hockey Team Resurrected
It appears that the run-down building in north Dayton, known as Hara Arena, has managed to take advantage of the demise of the Dayton Bombers… Dayton Gems hockey returns.
Recession, Depression, Recovery
Ha tip to Mark Clower
Times are a Changing…
Here are 15 services that we’ve used during our lifetime that are slowing disappearing (hat tip to Joe Knecht): U.S. Post Office – They are pricing themselves out of existence. With e-mail, and and on-line services they are a relic
Crazy Start of the Week for Dayton
A rough start of the week for Dayton, Ohio. The IAMS pet food company, owned by Proctor & Gamble, is moving their headquarters and 240 employees out of a north Dayton suburb. NCR, headquartered in Dayton for over 100 years, is