It’s been a long time coming, but at long last here’s the radio interview I promised you. I was on the Michael Hart show with Bernie Marcus, retired founder of The Home Depot, and here is the audio of that conversation. As you may notice, the interview is in large part with Bernie Marcus, and [...]
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Radio Interview with Bernie Marcus and Lee Katz on the Michael Hart Show
Posted in In the News, tagged Bernie Marcus, big business, Home Depot, job creation, Job Creators Alliance, Michael Hart on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What the Boogeyman and the Economy Have in Common
Posted in In the News, tagged boogeyman, budget, cost of living, debt, Double-dip Recession, economy, recession, stock market on November 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Our economy has had its ups and downs in recent months and years. The experts say that we can’t technically have a double-dip recession because of the time that has passed since the official end of the first recession, but in my opinion, we’re not going to enter a double-dip recession because we never got [...]
Congratulations, Curt
Posted in In the News, tagged TMA Award, Turnaround Management Association, USA Dry Van Logistics on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I want to dedicate this post to my partner, Curt Friedberg, who was just given the Turnaround Management Association Award for his “outstanding accomplishments” turnaround around USA Dry Van Logistics. This is GGG’s sixth TMA Award, and I’m incredibly proud of Curt for earning it. Congratulations, Curt!
Stay Occupied, My Friends
Posted in In the News, tagged Dos Equis, Europe, Greece, Italy, stock market on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The stock market plunged 390 points yesterday. Are you surprised? I’m not, especially in light of the sentiment I’ve been sharing in my recent posts. Our stock market is a gut reaction to what’s happening out there, and right now, that’s in Europe. The market is only as smart as the last person it talked [...]
We Shouldn’t Bail Out Europe – We Should Turn It Around
Posted in In the News, tagged bailout, bankruptcy, countries, debt, Europe, governments, Greece, Thessaloniki, Turnaround Management on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been writing a lot lately about Greece, which is representative of the larger problems Europe is having right now. My interest lies in the fact that an organization (in this case a country or group of countries) is spinning out of control in crisis and has little or no idea how to fix things. [...]
How Greece and the Stock Market are Conspiring Against You
Posted in In the News, tagged business, CEO, CNN, economics, economy, Euro, Europe, Greece, Italy, Spain, stock market on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
If you’re a news person or you follow finance then you’re no doubt already aware of the situation in Greece. That country is a mess. It’s debt is astronomical; it has no capacity to repay; the political situation is volatile at best; there are mass protests, and nobody has any idea what to do. That’s [...]
Hey, America! Keep It Simple, Stupid
Posted in In the News, tagged Buffett Tax, Congress, Jobs Bill, Obama, politics, Turnaround Management on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve talked about it before, and here’s another reason that America should be run like a business. Each and every bill that goes through Congress has many pieces yet most of those pieces don’t pertain to a bill’s raison d’être. Why? Self interest and politics. It’s for those same reasons that bills we need don’t get [...]
I Told the Radio What I Told the Papers: Cut the Burn Rate in Washington
Posted in In the News, tagged Atlanta Business Chronicle, budget, economy, party politics, recession, trade deficit, Washington DC, WSB Radio on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently on WSB radio, and I explained there the same thing I explained in my recent Atlanta Business Chronicle article. We have to cut the rate of spending – the rate at which we’re burning money – in the government. 10 or 15% across the board – that’s every single department – is [...]
Old Tricks by the Fed and D.C. Don’t Stimulate the Economy
Posted in In the News, tagged Money, securities, shenanigans, stimulus money, the economy, The Federal Reserve on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As you may have read, some former Fed Officials are suggesting a new round of securities purchases to spur the economy. They claim that this move is in response to stifled job growth and continued recession issues. Shenanigans! Well, I used a harsher word before, but this time I’m going with shenanigans. Purchase a new [...]
Avoid America’s Bankruptcy by Bringing a Turnaround Guy to Washington and Treating the Country Like a Business
Posted in In the News, tagged America, balance budget, bankruptcy, board of directors, D.C., economy, education, entitlements, ER doctor, Greece, health care, Iceland, military, national debt, negative cash flow, pensions, politics, private sector, public sector, raise taxes, turnaround, United States, Washington on August 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This article was published in its original form in the Atlanta Business Chronicle here. The United States is a capitalistic society, so I often wonder why the government isn’t run like a business. We had a surplus 12 years ago, but now our debt is astronomical: nearly 14 and a half trillion dollars. This isn’t [...]
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