I attended an interesting event today. I sat and watched Senator Orrin Hatch ask Mark Zuckerberg a bunch of questions submitted by students at BYU. I have never liked Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg because of some of his business decisions. That said, I tried really hard not to like him today but he really did [...]
So the government is toying with the idea of regulating airline prices. Just because one airline wants to start charging extra for your carry-on luggage. Now a Senator from NY thinks he can figure out the fair market price that airlines should charge for various fees. How can he think he can possibly have a [...]
I read a lot of business columns. Most of the time I find wise people with good advice. Like this guy. http://www.tompeters.com/cool_friends/content.php?note=010640.php I had a boss once (Curt Porrit) that told me that “the reason business exists is to make life better for people. The question then becomes ‘does it make life better for the [...]
Right now, there is $2.4 TRILLION in homes sitting empty in the USA. Let me type that our with numbers just so you can see how big that number really is. $2,400,000,000,000. That’s right, 13 digits. How many numbers do we deal with that have 13 digits, really? Not that many. Especially when it is [...]