Why size does matter if you’re a pirate on the high seas.

So.  It appears that Somali pirates hijacked a saudi oil tanker. 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLIc4IJL141M&refer=home
Amazing, a tanker that holds one-quarter of Saudi Arabia’s daily oil output.  Not a small boat.  Now, you gotta watch Kevin O’Leary’s comments on the average IQ of these pirates.  See:
http://watch.bnn.ca/squeezeplay/november-2008/squeezeplay-november-17-2008/#clip113408
The clip runs from 6:00 to 7:30.  Kevin calls them “real bozos on a bus”.  […]

Should the US automakers be allowed to go to zero?

Hot off the presses.  Taxpayers’ money being thrown after mis-managed, unsound businesses being run by idiot management.  ie, GM, Ford, and Chrysler.  Now?  The latest is a stalement in the US Congress:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/
ALeqM5gfg3wahhWYeWNcAwtQuN9xWH0Z9QD94GU19G1
Making cars is a cut-throat business.  Profit margins are slim, and product lead-up times run into the years, so strategic decision-making is a necessity.  […]

Size isn’t everything. In fact, it’s irrelevant. GM. Big. Getting smaller. Going broke. And almost bankrupt.

By the way, Mr. IBOFB:
Further to my above comment that size is irrelevant, and my previous comment that the key metrics to look at are:   market share gains, profitability, and cash-flow.
Do keep in mind that for the calendar year-ending Dec31/2007, GM was still (by a narrow margin) the largest automaker in the WORLD!!!   Most units […]

Amway profiled in “the Fraud Files blog”

no affiliation with me.  This blog is maintained by a gutsy CPA, MBA, and I love this, only in America, “Certified Fraud Examiner”.  She has a posting up on why she questions the business model of Amway. 
Obviously, she is a numbers person, as her data and logic is similar to mine.  
http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/07/21/amway-sucks-quixtar-sucks-alticor-sucks/