A pretty good article in Quality Digest about reducing errors in manufacturing: http://www.qualitydigest.com/magazine/2009/apr/article/reducing-errors-manufacturing.html
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I am not Jewish, but…
A great speech from Robert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation… A few extracts: Over the years, some of my wildest critics seem to have assumed I am Jewish. At the same time, some of my closest friends wish I were…
Local Newspapers
Is the Dayton Daily News the next to go under? My view is the DDN information is typically a day behind, and their opinion page reads like a rehash of the New York Times…
Japan’s Lost Economic Stimulus
The “lost decade.” That’s how the Japanese describe their country in the 1990s. Those just so happen to be the boom years here in the United States. Japan’s real estate and stock bubbles had burst. The interest rates had moved
American Exceptionalism
Charles Murray received an award from the American Enterprise Institute where he delivered a lecture, ”The Happiness of the People.” The lecture focused on the concept of American exceptionalism. A key excerpt: “it isn’t something in the water that has
Washington Doublespeak
Another great commentary from Victor Davis Hanson. He talks about his challenge trying to understand macroeconomics and the doublespeak coming from the O’bama administration: I feel… confused about all the doublethink coming out of Washington. Great Depression—no Great Depression. Recession
Madoff Inflating Numbers
A suppose you can find humor in just about anything… Personally, I think that Madoff should just do the only honorable act remaining — commit suicide.
US Economy — Obama Destruction
A great objective analysis of the US economy in Forbes magazine by economists from First Trust Advisers… a few key extracts: Despite the rosiest economic projections we have possibly ever seen, as well as one of the largest tax hikes
What’s Happening with the Housing Bubble?
A couple of graphics about the housing issue helps to nicely illustrate what’s happening in our country. The first chart comes courtesy of the MotherJones web site and it shows that just 32 counties (primarily in California, Arizona, Nevada, and