B/W reports that the Inspector General for the Defense Dept.  has found a lack of internal control and insufficient equipment to do the job the military was asked to do. A staple of the long running tv show MASH was Radar on the phone trying to swap this for that and obtain some needed equipment. …

Class I am late getting this to you but probably not that many of you have attempted the homework yet. YOu will note that prolbems 30,31,38,29,42,50 in chapters 1-3 are in homework manager Also problems for chapter 16 including 43 49 28 You can log into homework manager at http://mh9.borwnstone.net/modules/.configure.test.login or Homework Manger And complete…

Here is a great column about MSFT’s VISTA . It has taken five years to produce this product, and Ballmer swears that won’t happen again.  Frankly I agree with the author.  It would have been far better to make small changes in XP, but was a change really needed?  I have yet to sit down…

We were discussing futures contracts and the wisdom of using  currency manipulation to try and improve the market for a country’s goods before the intermediate class Monday.  Here is an article from the CATO Institute  which finds no evidence that Japan has manipulated its currency.  Indeed Japanese imports are down from 2001.  But production is…

I urge you to read comments and thoughts written by folks outside the USA, it brings a different perspective.  Here are some thoughts on the latest Economic Forum at Davos SW   The writer suspects that the decline of Britains and  the USA as ‘world managers’ is leaving a void in leadership with no one willing…

Mark Russell and Dave Barry, both satirists, have complained that life is getting be such a parody of itself, it is hard to make a living satirizing it!  If you read my Friday post about the DISD credit card scandal, wait till you see the article on the front page of the Sunday 1/28/07 edition.…

Okay, what’s going to happen?  In the economy for example.  After all, isn’t the point of a college business education to give you the tools to make such judgments?  Consider those whiz kids on page 58 of the B/W 1/22/07 getting six figure salaries to figure that out at Barclays?  Chill, it costs a lot…

I have added my suggested list of movies with ethical themes to the Handout section of WEB CT for your class. An asterik indicates I have a copy of that movie.  Sadly, most video stores either sell older ones or a few may be in the classics section. However, amazon.com to the rescue, all of…

All The graduate class has responded well to my request to discuss articles on this Blog.  Indeed, Jordan McClary and Sharell Gallien made 11 and 10 posts respectively.  WEB CT gives me a report on who does what so those of you who have not ‘hit a lick’ yet take note.  My feeling reading the…

There is a good article on the low end luxury real estate market ($750K-$1M) on page  W 8 of the 1/26/07 WSJ.  It never pays to be late to the party so to speak. And again in the statistics don’t lie but dept….when I was studying to become a broker in 1972, mutual funds handily…