Here is a perspective for you.  Sears bought Lands End in 2002 for $1.86 B, about the same price Google just paid for You Tube.  Is You Tube worth as much as a known brand that has been around since the early 1960s?  I don’t know but….why hasn’t Sears done something with it? Ed Lampert…

Many a television star has tried to make the transition to movies, McClean Stevenson of MASH and Sally Struthers of All in the Family come to mind, only to discover that their tv fans just don’t see them as movie stars.  Leopards don’t lose their spots so to speak.  And so the 10/17/06 WSJ P.…

Pete Kendall’s blog  explores the new study of socionomics.  Understand this URL copntent is  changing, you can find the comments later at this site under the heading NEWS for Oct 17 2006. Pete is making the same point I made in Fin State Analysis last night, which is that mergers take place at market highs,…

Ben Stein usually has some ideas on making money.   I redid this hyperlink per Michelle’s suggestion.  I re did this a second time.  If it does not work, just go to finance.yahoo.com and then go to columnists.   This hyperlink is to one  of his columns that is no exception to that rule.  You may…

Well the Neiman site lists NMGB as a symbol but it does not come up on finance.yahoo but results are available on their website and they do fille with the SEC. I will try to unravel this conundrum this week.  Meanwhile you might check out the article on NM in the Sunday DMN Business Section. …

B/W sat down thei MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer and got his take on the Google purchase of You Tube. He makes several good points among them that there is not business plan for You Tube, will this be a hot commodity ten years from now, and that there are only about four companies that can…

Yahoo Finance Well I just found a beter site than the CNN site about money and investing.  Not surprisingly it is on yahoo.  Click on the hyper link at the start of this post.  And it has an excellent glossary.  For example, Under Investing 101, click on Bonds.  There is one of the best explanations…

We all know the drill, companies talk about how open they are to ideas, until of course you suggest one.  I know from your papers that most big box retailers and franchises are not interested in innovatinon. Apparently that is not the case with BMW, one of  the most profitable car companies around.  Deming talked…

Here are some Design Favorites  from Fast Company .  Okay sound off gang, what are your favorite things, that sport coat that fits just right, a kitchen gadget, a tool in the garage, a camera, is there one great cell phone, what?  You will notice I have been talking about design and its importance, the…

Well the GM Renault deal is dead if it ever had a chance.  Jerry Flint  didnt’ think so and has an interesting analysis of why auto mergers often fail.  And frankly that is true of most mergers.  Mergers tend to happen at stock market highs when folks are happy and inclusionary.  They almost never happen…