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Knauf drywall, a German brand of drywall manufactured in China, could be releasing toxic gases in tens of thousands of US homes built between 2004-2007. ABC reports: The Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating whether (Knauf) drywall…may be emitting toxic gases. Most materials used to build or remodel homes are made in the United States, […]
Good CEOs display a combination of characteristics that are hard to find. They need to be unselfish, popular with employees, good communicators, shrewd, good businesspeople, and above all, good leaders. Unfortunately, in recent years, we’ve had our share of selfish, unpopular, tight-lipped, or otherwise faulty CEOs. Fortunately, the systemic components of the CEO issue can […]
It’s so much easier to keep your job than look for a new one in this economy. These tips are a good reminder for all of us to love the one we’re with. 1. Do Your Job – Only Better A freelancer I know recently told me she’d rather just go to work for someone […]
Remember our corporate logo parody post from last December? It depicted 15 corporate logos altered to reflect current economic conditions. We couldn’t resist creating 10 more corporate logos as a follow-up. We thought the following might suit the companies–after the crisis: […]
Some brands are so embedded in the American psyche that reading about them from a fresh perspective is almost shocking. Take Costco, which is getting ready to open its very first Australian store. The Australian reports: US bulk retailer Costco will open its first Australian store in July. It will introduce low-price, high-volume retailing at […]
Mike Stearns, a newly minted Georgetown MBA, is finding it nearly impossible to land a marketing job. So his wife, 28-year-old Robin Stearns, bought the domain name myhusbandneedsajob.com (Note: at time of writing, the website wasn’t working…perhaps Mike found that job), purchased a MacBook with her tax refund, and built Mike a portfolio site. “My […]
In lay terms, a bailout is just another kind of subsidy. We’ve been bailing out corn, which appears in everything from soda to ethanol, since around 1933. Why not pull the plug on one bailout–corn–to finance the current one? From the Environmental Working Group: Over the past twelve years, taxpayers have spent $56 billion on […]
The inimitable Ben Stein writes about why cap and trade is a bad idea: Two main ways to address the issue are under discussion. One would involve a nationwide system of credits for carbon burning, with a total cap. The credits would be traded in national and maybe world markets. Entities that emit more carbon […]
Found this odd claim reported in the Christian Science Monitor: In San Diego, mobile users pay more than $3 per minute on average. The Utility Consumers’ Action Network surveyed 700 cellphone users and found that the average cellphone bill went down since 2004, falling from $57.92 for a single-line account to $37.15 today. However, “cost […]
