I am always amazed (annoyed?) at the innumeracy of the American (ok, the world’s) populace. It’s one of the ways polemicists can convince folks of certain “facts”– even when there is no logic behind their words.
Continue reading Average<>Median
I decided that if learning form failure is a good idea, then we all can learn “oodles” from the stupidity and ineptitude of the Wall Street Journal. I share the ‘experience’ here.
Continue reading How NOT to run customer service
It’s that time of year again. Where every Senator, Congressman, Businessman clamors for tax reform. Which really is never about tax reform, but about making the playing field more beneficial for someone (their special someone).
Continue reading We Need This Tax Reform
Cal Ripken. Baseball’s “Iron Man”. He played for a team that I never followed- nor one I liked. But, Cal Ripken is someone I admired- not just because he played day in and day out- but because he represented all that is honorable in sports.
Continue reading Talent. Skill. Attitude.
I am so tired of hearing how corporations pay 35% of their income to the Internal Revenue Service. That fiction needs to stop- now. There are a slew of companies that paid nome o corporate inctaxes in 2012 (and years prior).
Continue reading Tax Rate Fictions
About 1/6 of us feel that we do not get sufficient sleep. Now, that’s the data- and I can’t figure out quite how that was derived- but it seems that someone told the subjects they needed 8 hours of sleep- which predicated that answer.
Continue reading Catching some Z’s?
Oops. UVA is back in the news again. A year later. (I last reported on the UVA shenanigans in August of last year.) For a few reasons. It seems that Helen Dragas, while remaining on the board, will not be the Rector comes 30 June. The first black Rector of the University, George K. Martin, will take her place on 1 July 2013. Mr. Martin is an attorney with McGuireWoods, one of the most prominent of Virginia Law firms, where he manages the Richmond (and headquarters) office. While he does practice law (corporate), he has been intimately involved in the administration of the firm, which will hopefully put him in great stead to take the reins of the UVa Board.
Continue reading UVA Progress?
I’ve long advocated the use of IRA’s to expand one’s business interests. The issue is that there is a VERY fine line dividing what can and cannot be done- in a legal sense.
Continue reading Self Directed Investment Retirement Accounts (SDIRA)
FASB. IASB. Those eight (8) letters are going to cause a lot of us some grief. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are planning to change the rules, which will make our business profits look very different.
Continue reading It’s coming- and our balance sheet will never be the same…
It was more than 4 decades ago that I considered starting my own compounding pharmacy. It was an idea hatched during a meeting among Drs. Joseph Letteri, Lawrence Brennan (both were nephrologists practicing at the Nassau County Medical Center), Shelly Fialkoff, and me. Both Drs. Letteri and Brennan were gracious in offering their time and input to a young tyke like me.
Continue reading A Road Not Taken