Tom Sowell points out that it was not the stock crash that caused unemployment, it was the Smoot Hawley tariffs. These tariffs restricted trade and literally put people out of work. Now as then the experts are saying the government has to do something. Perhaps we should let their initial forays play out before Barack jolts…

I happened to wander into a Staples yesterday and there is was, finally. Acer has delivered on the long awaited promise of a real portable laptop. Yep, it weighs a mere 2.1 lb, sports a Gig of ram and a whopping 120 gigs of hard drive so you can run the real professional version of windows,…

Socionomics suggests that popular mood finds its mate in appropriate movies and song. Hence I have pointed out that darker movies like The Dark Knight (opver $300 MN so far) have found large audiences.  Several of you have countered that you have no negative mood. Indeed, the other side of that coin is the desire…

Thje US Constitution expressly forbids a monarchy. Yet we come pretty close at times. Ethics can also involve a concept of fairness, everyone is for fairness but everyone has a different idea of what it is.  The situation involving the Il Governonr trying to profit from his Senate appointment for Barack's vacant seat is clearly…

THis is an update of previous posts to make you aware of just how many certifications are out there. Here is a complete list of every known as well as 'hey I didn't know that or never heard of that' accounting certification.  I cannot vouch for just how valuable some of these are. The short…

A Senate seat is a valuable thing, You just don't give it away for nothing. I want tomake money Ill Gov Rod Blagojevich   Brian Culp claimed to be an Army Ranger involved in the Black Down episode, click the hyper link to read the truth. Bernard Madoff has pulled off the bigggest fraud in Wall Street…

Jerry Flint puts the whole auto picture in perspective here. Truth is GM and Ford make lots of money overseas Hybrid cars do not sell well, Honda has taken most of theirs off the market new turbo gas cars are the most efficient solution, hybrids with their expensive batteries are notSouthern senators are not being forthright…

One student reported in class that her company had received notice of reduced credit card limits. Meredith Whitney points out that the control of credit cards are in the hands of a few big banks. With less capital to risk, they are now cutting back on credit card limits.  As she says (this was on CNBC…

I have mentiobned that the casino stocks in Nevada have lost over 90% of therir value. Sure enough the other Nevada US Senator Ensign is on this morning whining about how the hotel industry is bigger than the auto industry.  At least he is for a corporate tax cut though it is hard to see…

Two of the speakers at the two day CPE Expo this past week emphasized service to the client. One used examples of traveling with his wheelchair bound wife, of course the airline lost the wheelchair, the hotel never had the room with  wheelchair accessible shower as promised, and on and on, one wondered that he was…