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Gary E.'s Blog Posts
Cash for Clunkers data paints a murky picture
09/19/09
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Filed under: Products and services, Personal financeData analysis of the government's Cash for Clunkers program is beginning to surface. That analysis, coupled with some not too impressive projections, is beginning to paint a murky, if not dismal, picture of the auto industry's future. I read an exce...
APP
American Apparel CEO puts big ugly foot in his mouth
07/27/09
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Filed under: Bad news, Management, Law, EmployeesWe might be tempted to think, in this day and age, that a move as stupid as this one could not happen in our enlightened business world. However, the CEO of American Apparel (AMEX: APP), seems to think otherwise.According to a story provided by Gawker....
China seeks to cap and trade the American consumer
03/17/09
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Filed under: Rants and raves, China, ColumnsHere's the tip: It might be time to pull investments from Chinese manufacturing and export interests. According to an Associated Press report, which features some mind numbing quotes from Li Gao, China's chief climate negotiator, it may soon become far more...
MSFT
Microsoft accounting error shows up as huge PR blunder
02/23/09
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Filed under: Management, Microsoft (MSFT), Employees, Workspace, TechnologyThings have again become spicy in the world of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Reports are circulating that Microsoft miscalculated the severance payouts to some of the approximately 1,400 employees that the company recently l...
PLA
Can anything save Playboy? Don't bet your booty on it.
01/23/09
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Filed under: Rumors, Competitive strategy, Marketing and advertisingThe rumor mill announced yesterday that Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) is going to suck it up, pull out, and move its entire operation to its home port of Chicago. According to a blurb in The New York Post, "Playboy is combining its...
Bank of England lowers interest rates to lowest point since The Revolution
01/09/09
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Filed under: Rants and raves, Recession, Financial CrisisYou read that right. Bloomberg.com has reported that The bank of England has lowered it's benchmark interest rate to it's lowest point since the bank was founded in 1694. How much more proof is needed to make obvious the fact that people and bu...
Way Off Wall Street: The public responds to the Madoff scandal
01/07/09
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Filed under: Scandals, Columns, Mutual fundsWelcome to Way Off Wall Street, a column dedicated to providing Main Street opinions on topics of interest to investors. Each installment highlights the views of Americans who are far removed from the canyons of Wall Street -- and who often see things more ...
American Small Business League cries foul on Obama team
01/05/09
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Filed under: Competitive strategy, Entrepreneurs, Politics, Small businessA press release that was sent out by the American Small Business League (ASBL) in late December 2007 is pitting American small businesses against the interests of large and wealthy venture capitalists. The press release states ...
Hawaii breaks out Obama-era stimulus projects
12/27/08
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Filed under: Good newsIn the month of December alone, the state of Hawaii has raised $226 million through the sale of tax-free bonds to investors. These bond sales are to help underwrite over $1.8 billion in statewide infrastructure development projects. Slated improvement projects for the island sta...
Money losers of 2008: Jessica Simpson, the minx with the jinx
12/25/08
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Filed under: Consumer experience, Marketing and advertising, Comic ReliefThis post is part of our feature on Money Losers of 2008. See all 20.
It's hard to dispute the fact that 2008 has been a lousy year for singer/actress, Jessica Simpson. She entered the year with her new beau, Tony Romo of the Da...
Way Off Wall Street: Can labor unions help stabilize the economy?
12/17/08
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Filed under: Management, Employees, Columns, Recession, Financial CrisisWelcome to Way Off Wall Street, a column dedicated to providing Main Street opinions on topics of interest to investors. Each installment highlights the views of Americans who are far removed from the canyons of Wall Street -- an...
DIS
Money winners of 2008: Miley Cyrus, pop star phenomenon
12/16/08
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Filed under: Television, Competitive strategy, Marketing and advertising, Walt Disney (DIS)This post is part of our feature on Money Winners of 2008. See all 20.
As far as pop star phenomenons go, Miley Cyrus, aka Destiny Hope Cyrus, certainly is one. At just 16 years of age, the bright personality o...
Best & Worst in Money 2008: As-seen-on-TV product
12/07/08
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Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Television, Internet, Marketing and advertisingThis post is part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst in Money 2008 feature.
Does it say something about American society when we consider the broad acceptance of the infomercial? At the ...
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SBUX
Best & Worst in Money 2008: Most in need of a makeover
12/05/08
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Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Starbucks (SBUX), Sears Holdings (SHLD)This post is part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst in Money 2008 feature.
As we undertake a hasty exit from the tumult of 2008 and plunge headlong into the mysteries of 2009, we might find it interesting to consider some...
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Big sucking sound as WaMu white collars get the axe in Seattle
12/03/08
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Filed under: Management, Employees, JPMorgan Chase (JPM)All is not well in Seattle for executives at Washington Mutual. The Seattle Times has reported that some 3,400 WaMu employees, mostly from the company's headquarters, are to be let go by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The good news for wo...
Way Off Wall Street: Retirement dreams fade for younger workers
12/01/08
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Filed under: Columns, Money and Finance Today, Personal finance, RecessionWelcome to Way Off Wall Street, a column dedicated to providing Main Street opinions on topics of interest to investors. Each installment highlights the views of Americans who are far removed from the canyons of Wall Street -- ...
Service employees union boss takes it on the chin
11/27/08
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Filed under: Employees, Scandals, Headline newsAn internal probe and preliminary criminal investigation, regarding alleged misappropriation of funds, has resulted in a lifetime ban against Tyrone Freeman, now the former head of United Long-Term Care Workers Union. Freeman, who had ostensibly served t...
OSK
Manufacturing bright spot: Pierce Manufacturing Inc.
11/26/08
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Filed under: Good news, Press releases, Products and services, IndustryPierce Manufacturing is a member of the family of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK), formerly the Oshkosh Truck Corporation. For the second month in a row, Pierce Manufacturing has announced another major equipment building contract...
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Finally, they'll come for NASCAR
11/23/08
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Filed under: Competitive strategy, Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), Marketing and advertising, Business of sportsMany of today's "investors" place their bets on the stock market's wheel of fortune. They hope that their number will come up. I have news for those stock players: the majority of thei...
Somali pirates have their backs against the wall
11/20/08
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Filed under: Good news, Competitive strategy, Politics, Commodities, OilThe pirates of Somalia, in making world trade a bit more of a high risk venture, have finally placed their own unsavory hobby in jeopardy. Bloomberg reports that NATO is currently reassessing it's operations in the insecure water...
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