I’m sure you’ve heard the bromide- employment gains really come from the small businesses in the US. I, for one, am not so sure this applies anymore. But, that’s because small businesses in the US are really small business.
Continue reading The state of business?
Continue reading Pass the apple and the broccoli… I want to feel better.
So, yesterday, I spoke about how taxes make a difference to the various folks in America. From the working poor to the middle class, to the rich and super-rich.
Continue reading Living Wages- redux
I just lost a friend to cancer. One who was supposedly in remission. Until we found out her “stroke” was a cacophony of tumors in her brain- and the rest of her body. My father succumbed to three different cancers, simultaneously, and relatively quickly.
Continue reading A new roadmap to conquer cancer?
I admit it. I love cheese. And, that’s a real problem. Because I can buy a pound of cheese for $4, which is about 1/3 cheaper than buying two 8 oz slabs and 50% cheaper than buying precut cheese (not the slices, which is even still dearer.)
Continue reading Make it hard!
A few days ago, I described a meeting I attended- on social responsibility. (I wrote about it here.) It made me consider how the firms I have started and been involved with would qualify by those metrics.
Continue reading Did that model apply?
We are having our babies older than we used to. Which is why our population is not increasing. (As a matter of fact, it was just announced that there were more deaths than births for soon-to-be minority majority Whites in America.) Because the longer we wait, the less likely we will have our (old) average of 2.2 children per family. Even that wasn’t “self-replicating”, with 2.33 children per family- which keeps the population stable. Right now, US families are averaging just over 1.9 children per family. Continue reading Decisions have Consequences
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 have been having debates with my friends and colleagues for years over executive pay. You, too, have heard me rail that there is no financial or business reason to allow an executive to receive compensation of 100, 200, or 500 times the average pay of the corporation s/he leads. When I was growing up, executive compensation rarely exceeded 10 times the average pay. I realize I am old- but this inflation is not only ridiculous, it’s as dangerous as that obtaining in pre-World War II Germany!
Continue reading The Myths of CEO compensation
