Socrates Says

With the beginning of the political conventions I thought it would be instructive to return to Milton Friedman. Free to Choose was written in 1980 and reprinted in 1990. It talks about the changing opinion of socialism and capitalism. But it gives warning which had we heeded it we would never be where we are […]

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Justice Louis […]

The more I practice, the luckier I get. Jerry Barber   It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot   Only that which is temporary endures. French Proverb

With credit to the AP I once wore a peekaboo blouse. People would peek then they would boo I never made Who’s Who but I’m featured in What’s That? When I told Fang I was going to get my face lifted, he said, Who’d steal it? You know you’re old when your walker has an […]

Why do your employees work for you? Three Harvard professors, Hesketh, Sasser and Schlesinger wrote a very definitive book called “The Service Profit Chain.” In it they posited that Employee Satisfaction and Loyalty delivered Service Value. That is the “thing” that customers “feel” when they do business with you. It is not about you or […]

For a number of decades econometric forecasting has been conducted by a couple of men named Fanter. First there was Dick and then along came Andy. Cyclcast and Intercast are the two groups that conduct the economic analysis. Never a precise science and one that is constantly being second guessed Andy faces the winds of […]