Fun With Statistics: Metrics, Distortions, and Outright Lies
23 January 2010
By Kevin Meyer Several letters in today's Wall Street Journal pointed me back to a recent op-ed by Michael Boskin titled "Don't Like the…
A Rube Goldberg Creation of Rare Perversity
16 January 2010
By Kevin Meyer Obviously with that kind of title I can only mean the insanity created, again, when the free market force of nature meets skewed polit…
Mandates vs. Kaizen
5 January 2010
By Kevin Meyer A couple weeks ago I contrasted the process of kaizen (small incremental change) versus kaikaku (large step change), particularly in r…
Masking the Real Problem
1 November 2009
By Kevin Meyer I promise to get off of this tax kick one of these days, but ignorance of the incredible influence of tax policy just burns me sometim…
Knowledge - and Revenue - Runs Away
31 October 2009
By Kevin Meyer A couple times a year I touch on the admittedly touchy subject of how tax policy literally attacks knowledge - and thereby revenue. I…
Kiwi Crossroads
18 October 2009
by BILL WADDELL I came across an article recently that, at first blush, stuck me as just another accounting driven manufacturing company racing down…
The Customer is the Boss at FAVI
18 September 2009
By Kevin Meyer A couple years ago I told you about a rather unique manufacturing company in Florida where no one had job titles. That is, except for…
Not Exactly a Value Stream
8 August 2009
I've been somewhat amused over the last few days as Democrats try to squelch the mailing of a rather interesting chart purporting to diagram the D…