2 July 2025
Years ago, I found myself fascinated by American Apparel. Here was a company that seemed to be doing everything right from a manufacturing and operati…
12 September 2015
Big news in the business world: Wal-Mart is famous for keeping costs down, including employee-related costs. In Joplin, the company is testing a new…
12 March 2013
A recent CNN article pretty much describes the problem at the US Postal Service, although that wasn't really its intent. You see, there's this…
4 December 2012
I love reading The Wall Street Journal on the iPad. More than any other newspaper or magazine, the WSJ got it right in terms of functionality and read…
5 June 2012
In his piece yesterday on A New Ball Game, Bill actually beat me to the punch a bit on the sordid story of American Apparel. I've been planning an…
3 June 2012
An article on CNN this morning gave me some pause: Fareed Zakaria wondering whether Russia should move its capital from Moscow to Vladivostok - 4,000…
23 May 2012
I've been collecting a variety of articles I found interesting with the intention to bloviate about them. Unfortunately time has flown by and I ha…
9 May 2012
There have been a couple articles in noteworthy rags over the last couple days that have raised my ire a bit - even if I eventually agreed with one of…