Business Ideas That I Don’t Understand - Self Confidence Courses for Dogs

If your dog is insecure, don't worry, there is help.

Cowardly canines are being taught to face their fears at a self confidence course designed to bring out the inner wolf.

The course which has been a sell out success in Austria was organised by animal behaviour expert Marianne Prutsch.

She said: "More and more dogs are scared of their own shadows and the course is designed to make them more self confident and secure."

Another business in a long line of them that cause me to ask "people will pay for that?"

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Business Notes

The NYT reports that the minimum wage was just increased. Inflation, anyone?

Congress may approve "the biggest overhaul of mortgage financing since the New Deal."

The government is acknowledging the suffering of business owners everywhere by raising the gas deductible by eight cents.

The Metropolitan Money Store defrauded potential foreclosure victims out of millions of dollars by setting up fake loans and inflated appraisals. Ouch.

The Fed, in a determined effort to control inflation, said today it would "strongly resist" inflationary pressures on the economy. Translation: interest rates are going up in the not-to-distant future.

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