Casino City Times says the analogy is apt.  No gaming in Dubai, but it is a hot spot destination for the well to do set in the Middle East.  Managers in the area are taking classes from the Warton School on how to run a business.  Globalization it seems takes many forms. Meanwhille further east,…

Click here to read how government investigaors smuggled radioactive material from Canada to the US.  I saw this on tv alst night and googled the article. In fact the investigator said they simply walked it from a rented car on the Canadian Side to a rented car on the US side in a small red…

Fancy cars and jewelry are ways to display wealth or success.  But that does not mean that the ability to make that kind of money necessarily equates to good sense.  So many of the folks that obtain expensive fancy cars get into trouble with them that the results are now on display.  Yep, Wrecked Exotics…

Facebook turned down a $1 B offer not long ago. Now it is courting investment on the idea that it is worth !10 B. Wow. MSFT is upping the ante trying to buy the company. Murdoch owns My Space which is making Fox Interactive Media lots of money.  But Facebook is even more popular.  The…

Jerry Flint examines the ‘family sedan‘ market in this column.  A studyof managerial accounting gives us the tools to really analyze what Jerry is saying in this article.  Here is my short list of just some of the conepts on display here. In chapter 16 we studied horizontal analysis. One would use that to further…

GM employees at the Arlington TX plant went on strike this week.  Please read this article.  Now having read the article, is their goal realistic? History of Unions Unions organized against Ford for good reason Taft Hartley Act National Labor Relations Board National Right to Work Law National Right to Work Committee And the final…

Suzanne Fields wonders what is going on in supposedly top notch universities.  Seems the students are pretty ignorant of civics and such.  The other day in class i asked wy Barbara Boxer would oppose expensing stock options.  That discussion went nowhere as no one knew who Barbara Boxer,  US Senator from California, was. You will…

Robert Novak ;points out that Greenspan realizes embracing the left while working for four Republicans is likely to get good press in Washington.  Indeed I mentioned that Newsweek put him on the cover for criticizing Bush, both of them in fact.  Novak wonders if Greenspan deceived all four Republicans, an interesting column.

Lauren Upton is the South Carolina teen who got both brain and tongue tied in a national beauty contest. If you haven’t seen this mish mosh on You Tube, a description is in the hyperlink. Turns out though, she will be joining the Trump Modeling Agency and getting big bucks for pursuing her real dream,…

An EU Court has upheld a ruling that MSFT should pay  a $690M fine.  The rub is that MSFT intentionally designed windows so that its media applications do not work with other vendor software. Clearly this is a bit of European jealousy at how MSFT dominates the computer world, Europe where are you?  The writer…