Gulf Shores A front page story in the Wall Street Journal trumpeted the fact that Wal-Mart has been training supervisors throughout the stores where they manage more than 1-million workers as the country’s largest private sector employer in their anti-union message now more finely calibrated not to the generalized fear of unions but to the …
Category: Personal Writings
Government Loan Business
New Orleans The House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress spent a lot of time this week sanding down the edges and loosening some of the nuts and bolts to make it easier for students to get loans for college. The Government has opened the discount window of the Federal Reserve and agreed to …
Dabbawalas
St Petersburg The romance has been gone from flying for quite some time, but in the current fuel crises, the ridiculous has become the absurd as schedules worsen and costs accelerate. Earlier this week I took what once was a relatively painless hop to Chicago on direct flights from New Orleans up and back …