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It is easy to view a foreign place as one big homogeneous blob if you've never been there, but that is rarely accurate, and the USA is no exceptio…

Would you buy a cell phone from these guys? These cats are The Elegants - the original One Hit Wonders.  In 1958 their song, "Little Sta…

By popular demand, the debt chart time phased by year and adjusted for inflation. Scott, if you are the sort of fellow inclined to say 'I told yo…

Yesterday I posted a chart showing the total debt per person at the end of each administration going back to Eisenhower. Between my email inbox and th…

Debt per person means just that. I don't know what the average American family of four is worth, but it owes $339,456. My guess is that most are g…

I am rarely the first lean consultant my clients hire. I do, however, expect to be the last one they hire. I typically work with companies that have b…

As I wrote of GM's obsession with the same wrong issues nearly six years ago, "unless lightning strikes the Ren Center in Detroit, sparking a…

Thanks to SME for this great, short manufacturing video; and thanks to Jerry Miller for sharing it with me. Hope you all take a few minutes to watch…