Category Archives: Economics

How To Sell Less Beer: And Lose Money Doing It

Posted on April 13, 2010 | 2 comments

Okay, so, let’s say we own a bar.  And we sell, among other things, beer.  And we need the revenue we bring in from the sale of beer to buy things we like, need and want.  Here is how you DON’T increase that revenue.

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Conditions of Being Poor

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

A reader called shenanigans on my last post.  While likely that the average salary in the United States is higher than the average salary for the rest o the world, what can someone in those countries purchase with that salary.  Is there a measure by which we can gauge “quality of life”?

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Can You Really Be Poor?

Posted on April 12, 2010 | Leave a comment

There is significant talk about the poor in America. And to be sure, there are those who have an those who have not.  But can you say that America’s poor are truly poor?

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Our Plan Is So Good—We're Gonna Tax The Hell Oughta Ya

Posted on April 11, 2010 | Leave a comment

So, at a time when the country is strugglin’ pretty mightly [notice I avoided saying that we are struggling like we haven’t struggled since the Great Depression?  Yeah, cause sayin’ that is kinda stoopid.  We aren’t strugglin’ like we was strugglin’ as recent as 1981] the administration is worrying about a lot of other things besides that strugglin’.

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Walmart: Is "Greed" Good?

Posted on April 8, 2010 | 3 comments

People talk about greed.  That greed is bad bad bad.  Money corrupts and money s the root of all evil.

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General Motor's Next Best Hope

Posted on April 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

GM seems to be tryin’.  I really think that they’re working at getting better.  I just don’t think they can.

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The Post Office is Running LA

Posted on April 7, 2010 | Leave a comment

Watch this guys.  California is the state with the biggest hand out infrastructure in the Nation.  They have more entitlement programs than you can shake a stick at.  And YOU are going to bail ’em out.

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April 5th, 2010: Chance of Recession in the Next 12 Months — 00.055%

Posted on April 5, 2010 | Leave a comment

Very little has changed since March 1st.

In essence, the New York Fed says that there is a 00.055% chance that the country will enter or be in recession by April 2011.

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A Glimpse into Tomorrow

Posted on March 31, 2010 | Leave a comment

We’re not there.  Yet.  Out health care system hasn’t transitioned from a free market based delivery system to one of a more socialist system, but we took one step closer.  Think of it as economic fascism, or medical fascism.  It’s like what they always say:  “It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from here”.

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Unions: How to Devastate an Organization

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

Look.  Unions are wicked wicked things.  And they are not stupid.  They will attach themselves to any host they can find and suck as much of it’s life out as it can.  But they won’t kill the host.

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