The New York Times reported that sales of smaller compacts and subcompacts are on the rise, now that we’re in a gas crunch. Industry analysts (who are young enough that they don’t remember the 70s) are calling this “a first.”
I tried to tell a friend that we’ve had cars that got 50-60 mpg for at [...]
At a recent physical exam, my weight was a tad above what I want it to be (probably all muscle, but you can never be too sure). So I went web surfing a bit about weight gain trends and found an article proclaiming that obesity is becoming a world-wide problem. It seems the availability of [...]
As I write this, oil prices topped $78. In January of 2005, gas was selling for around $1.75/gallon. Now, it’s over $3.
For any business that depends on transportation or petroleum, we just doubled that line item.
Are you assuming this is a temporary spike, and ignoring it? Are you factoring this into your long-term planning? How [...]
I just finished Make Your Own Luck by Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson. What a great book!
My background is in engineering and science, then business. As an engineer, I really liked that there’s a “right answer.” Or at least, there are clear wrong answers (the bridge will collapse if we make it out of tissue [...]
