You may have noticed that the government, federal that is, has ideas about your car, your house,  your electricity ues, your health plan and yes, your weight.  Meme Roth at NAAO believes the government should have mandatory counseling for overweight teens. Reject that you and you reject your ability to access Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Hmm, will…

A couple of years back I speculated that after home builders the next crash was surely Vegas Casinos, oh that I had bought puts!   Now condo buyers have even started blogs commiserating with one another.  I was there last summer and it was ridiculous then. Just how much market is there for what appeared…

Kai-Fu Lee has moved from Microsoft to Google to his own operation in China. he is funded by 'angel investors' and will be working on e commerce and cloud computing. Jim Rogers said several years ago that it was only  a matter of time before China came up with its own operating systems putting Windows…

Here is an article by a UT Philosophy Prof. It concerns giving structure to an undergrad core curriculum. He had in mind a curriculum centered around Great Books, a history of Western Civilization.  The Humanities Dept had different ideas. http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/news/2711/a-texas-sized-defeat-for-western-civilization Okay sound off, do you think your core curriculum was worthwhile, or just killed some…

The Cost books and Supply Chain Management would have you believe Just in Time Inventory is all the rage. Not so fast, price now reigns supreme.  Companies are examining their shipping costs and cutting them. Less overall is being shipped and I suspect until the truck is full of something, it does not depart the…

Charlie Rangel is head of the Powerful House Ways and Means Committee, way being taxes you owe means being we can come get you in the event of non payment.  Rangel admitted on the floor of the House he has not paid income tax on the rental income of his Caribbean property for years. The…

Larry Kudlow at CNBC dissects the latest job numbers.  The so called stimulus has not created a single private sector job. It has been a pork barrel of mostly projects yet to be started as well as programs which extend things like unemployment benefits which hardly gets people out looking for work.  See the other…

Enron, among other creative schemes, was manipulating energy markets to their advantage and the disadvantage of the State of California. Now really high speed trading brings such activity front and center.  Read about Optiver,  a Netherlands based trading operation. Goldman Sachs is also participating in such activity. Front running is the process of entering your order…

We are all learnign the new BB system. I just posted new content. When one views the Content area on the HOME PAGE, it only shows the first four entries If there are more than four they do not show on teh home page, so go on to the content page to see all entreis.…

Note to Students I urge you to stretch yourselves. We require written assignments for several reasons. Writing stimulates critical thinking, you have a tangible product. Too often we get the question, how long should the paper be?  Did Michaelangelo  ask about the budget for the Cistine Chapel?  No he painted the way he thought it…