By Kevin Meyer Forget for a moment all the financial convolutions the GM bailout foisted upon the taxpayers, and the accounting machinations they'…

By Kevin Meyer I know that title alone is going to get a bunch of folks tied up in their undies but a story on CNN over the weekend made me think a b…

By Kevin Meyer Cheap, low margin, low tech.  Made in America, exported to China.  It can be done, even with a product that has comparatively zero dem…

by BILL WADDELL The United States woke up to a report from the San Francisco Fed picked up by just about every business news outlet announcing that t…

by BILL WADDELL Retail executives from sea to shining sea are not sleeping as well as they used to as we hurtle headlong toward September.  In any ot…

by BILL WADDELL Only DC Can Make S&P Look Smart Standard & Poors - the credit rating folks who just downgraded the United States - are a gan…

by BILL WADDELL The big pharmaceuticals, (notoriously inept) J&J, Pfizer, Merck, Glaxosmithklein and others are laying off left and right and cha…

by BILL WADDELL in 1894 Bud Hillerich got serious about baseball bats and his father in law's woodworking company registered the name 'Louisv…