Business

Just Answer the Question

Posted by on March 25, 2011 at 9:41 pm

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 [...]

Free Market and the Airlines

Posted by on April 19, 2010 at 9:57 pm

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 [...]

Day and Night

Posted by on February 11, 2010 at 9:56 pm

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 [...]

Big Numbers

Posted by on August 28, 2008 at 9:52 pm

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 [...]