Chrysler is offering a guarantee against gasoline price increases.  Along wtih the purchase of certain vehicles, Chrysler will guarantee the buyer that the buyer will pay no more than $2.99 per gallon on 700 gallons of gasoline- for the next three years.   At 20 mpg that would take you 14,000 miles per year. Now I…

The old adage has it that one avoids poiltics and religion to get a point across. These tend to often be emotional issues, running counter to the audience emotion is a difficult sell.  However after reading the case studies in the grad class I am convinced that the students lack understanding of the sort of…

This is the most concise explanation I have read about Toyota’s concept of Kaizen.   Kaizen is the process of incremental and continuous improvement.  As the article says, most companies give up quality programs becasue they do not see instant results, rather like a crash diet that would have one stay thin for life. And…

Okay it’s a gorgeous Sunday afternoon,what to do? How about a trip to the Dallas Arboretum?  It is located on Garland on the east side of White Rock Lake.  It consists of 33 well manicured gardened acres. Today May 4 was in the low 70s, just perfect for taking in the sites so here we…

Jim Rogers says that most mergers do not work.  I agree. Now Wendys and Arbys are merging. Wendy’s has been wandering since Dave their founder died.  He brought it back from wandering in burger wars.  I prefer an Arby’s RB to a burger but clearly America does not. Breakfast, will this make MCD sweat?

B/W reports a less than subtle desire for Mac Computers in the corporate office.   I see that MSFT stock dropped this past week.  Dell is back in the low 20s. I originally adopted Macs in my office in the 1980s back in the MS DOS days.  The choice was clear then. Macs were easier…

An article in the Economist details the importance that Africa has in India’s future. I suspect we need a refresher class in geography, or are you familiar with Madagascar?  India and China will be vying for Africa’s rich natural resources. This may do more to develop Africa than all the good intentioned UN plans thus…

Now why didn’t someone in the graduate class think of this?  Yep, another great idea, You don’t want it, He can’t have it back. so My exboyfriendjewelry site to the rescue!  Click and check this one out!  A very specialized e bay DLE

Forbes Magazine  in my opinion has morphed into sort of a cross between Vanity Fair, Town and Country, and Esquire.  Which is to say it is not the business journal it used to be. The columnists however remain some of the best.  Steve takes on Greenspan and yes, after being haied as a Maestro, amid…

George Will takes on the Too Big to Fail argument. He goes back to Chrysler.  He suggests that got the idea going that the FED or Govt could prevent failures from spreading. Now the genie is out of the bottle, who can put it back in?  I certainly like his last suggestion that any investment…