Bruce Misamore, ex-Pennzoil exec: Vladimir Putin has no room to talk about. Bernie Madoff. “The biggest thief of all is Mr. Putin. He stole the biggest oil company in Russia.”
Category: Business
On Organizational Integrity
One sign of a defective organization is the existence of “Godfather”-like figures who operate outside of – and above – normal operating rules and lines of responsibility. Often their excuse is that part/all of the system is broken. The proper way to address such a situation is to correct the brokenness, not circumvent it on…
To iPhone or Not, That is the Question
I’d love to have an iPhone, but buying one would be like paying to see a Michael Moore movie – more money and power flowing in the wrong direction. Steve Jobs may be brilliant, but he’s a pain in consumers’ collective rear!
Americans Should Celebrate as Income Inequality Increases
The Business Insider has a new series of charts describing the “bum deal” working Americans have gotten in the last few decades, including this one demonstrating the fallacious but de facto standard liberal meme, namely that Americans should earn roughly equal shares of the income pie: An objective examination of this line of thinking reveals…
House to Bribe Car Buyers; Innovation Not Important
The House of Representatives is mulling over a plan that would give “vouchers” to new car buyers who purchase fuel efficient cars. Evidently vouchers are bad when it comes to education and good when it comes to automobiles. Typical liberal non-think. Choice is good if you think and act the way that they want you to; otherwise, they have to find a way to coerce you.
Misunderstanding Want and Need in Media, Life
Jane Hamsher’s busy keeping that lefty blogger no-one-wants-to-pay-us-for-our-hard-work theme going. News flash – if a customer can get your services for free then they’re going to do that. Unhappy? Try to charge them for your services. If your work is valued then they’ll meet your price. If not, well, you don’t have a sustainable business model, do you? That’s what the AP will find out if they keep going down the road they’re going.
GM’s Problems Started Decades Ago
Nate Silver’s picture is worth at least a thousand words when it comes to communicating how long GM’s financial troubles have been brewing. Silver also gets the reason behind the company’s demise right: the costs of GM’s retiree pension and health care programs. On one hand it’s easy to look back to 1950 and second-guess…
Quote of the Day – re Union Card Check Rules
Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa Jr.: “Since when is the secret ballot a basic tenet of democracy?” Uhhm, since forever is my immediate response. That’s not really true, naturally. But it has been an essential principle of our country since it became apparent what pressures were always brought to bear whenever the secret ballot was not…
Who is John Galt?
Steve Hayward says that if Barack Obama’s trillion-dollar tax increase is implemented that he will go on strike in the fashion of John Galt, Ayn Rand’s famous lead in Atlas Shrugged. …my bigger idea is to go all Randian and literally go on strike (and I’ve never really been much of a Rand fan, by…
More Americans Oppose Stimulus Than Support It, For Good Reason
A new Rasmussen poll shows that support for the now $900B+ stimulus package being engineered by Democrats is down to 37% – it was 45% 2 week ago. Some 20% of those polled are now undecided. Some of the blame for the proposal’s failure to win over voters belongs to the Democratic Congress that larded…