8/12/2025 A classic study in budget over run And n no lack of hanky panky to keep the tabloids cranked up.  Elizabeth Taylor  was married to  Eddie Fisher when filming began. But she and Richard Burton soon began, well seeing each other outside the movie set.  She would divorce Fisher and marry Burton ten days…

7/28/2025 No Price Increase Sice Year 2000 The $1.50 hot dog and soda   or as RFK Jr would say a heart attack on a bun

5/23/2025 A great example of standardized everything, cost accounting

2/21/2025 WSJ ith a list price of $3.7 million, Ferrari’s new “hypercar” was revealed to the public in October with a twist: It wasn’t available for sale. All 799 units of the low-slung, high-haunched F80 model—the most expensive production vehicle in Ferrari’s history—had been promised to top customers like Luc Poirier. The Montreal real estate…

11/7/2024 I ran across this and found it interesting, the cars we keep the longes Sevem of the 13 are Toyotas, I bought my 2009 Toyota RAV 4 in  2009, to date sure lots of usual maintenance but really only one repair, the alternator died around  580K no doubt, should have kept my MR 2…

Wed 10/30/2024 There Is Nothing in This World That Someone Cannot Make a Little Worse and Sell a Little Cheaper   Posted byquoteresearch May 21, 2020   Here is the origin of that quot5e This is classic Dr. Edward Deming. He warned against rewarding contracts based on price alone. Or as I think John Glenn…

Wed Sept 4, 2024 Today' selection–from Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. Though largely unheralded, starting in 1956, Malcolm McLean’s shipping containers brought “a logistics revolution that would fast-track globalization”: “Unrefrigerated shipping containers made their commercial debut on a rainy Thursday in 1956, when Pratt was not yet two years old. These now-ubiquitous metal boxes were the…

Wed Aug 28, 2024 How She Did It, the Taylor Swift Story   Typically athletes and performers endorse products for money, Taylor does not, she is a stand alone success, not needing others' permission, read how she did it.

Thursday Aug 1, 2024 "Without cheap sugar, Coke had no business. The company made its millions selling an inexpensive, nonessential beverage in volume, and it could only turn a profit on bulk sales if it kept raw material costs down, especially for sugar, its most expensive ingredient by far. Customers simply were not willing to…