One of the never ending stories of business is how capital flows via the Invisible Hand to its highest and best use. The same thing is true for human capital. Forbes has its list of the Top Ten Dying Cities I counted four in Ohio,no wonder it wil be a battle ground state in the…

Twilight is the series of smash hit novels from a 34 year old mother of three in Phoenix, AZ, hardly the Valhalla of vampires.  Yes you read that right, Twilight is a series of books aimed at teens about teenager Bella (not someone in Seventeen Magazine) who meets vampire Edward on the first day at…

Sam Zell sold Equity Office Partners at just the right time for $39 B. Then he bought money losing Tribune newspapers. What was he thinking. Read the article. Lesson, do not stray from what you know how to do.We often see this when Boards recruit medical doctors. Because the Doctor makes a mot of money…

Maria Bartiromo is getting better and better at this interview thing.  But I am not sure Bil Ford is. In this interview, he sounds a lot more like Al Gore.  Consider these gosh how did you get groomed to take over Ford answer!s How did Ford lose $8.7 B in one quarter?We had no idea…

Brinker sold these two restaurants to Metromedia, good thing. These long term fixtures took Chapter 7 which means kaput. Bennigans as the article said was loaded with debt, no doubt used to purchase from the wiser Brinker who apparently saw this coming.  Leverage works both ways and high debt raises fixed costs as we learn…

I took my NASD exams on a Control Data touch screen computer in Denver in the 1980s.  Now they are common at check out stands in retail stores. So it is not surprising that HP has introduced a Touch Screen PC.  This eliminates the mouse I suppose but caution, get a screen protector if you…

Apparently Rupert Murdoch has put the WSJ on line with at least some content  as many thought he would, as in for free.check it out at http://online.wsj.com. It sure beats having all those newspapers stack up around the house.  I suspect we will see more of the paper online this fall but who knows, newspapers…

I am posting a link to the KITCO site.  These folks promote commodity investing and I merely direct you there for a read, as always, make your own investing decisions carefully. The US Dollar advanced yesterday and commodities are undergoing a pullback in price. This chap and Jim Rogers believe this is temporary, as do…

Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino have both mentioned My Girl Friday  as the classic example of dialog on screen. I have linked to the scene marked Classic Comedy Dialogue in that movie. Better yet, take a look at the longer ten minute clip (watch this one first!)  from the start of the movie. Cary Grant…

Avon  is going Hollywood. Why did Avon choose Reese Witherspoon?  Is Reese causing the stock price to advance?  How would you allocate resources for advertising based on a celebrity, just wondering?