November 2008

esrati.com: substance or shocking? Weigh in.

Came across this on “For the love of Dayton”- I didn’t even merit a link: I haven’t read Esrati for awhile since he seems to be nothing more than a Daytonian’s attempt at being the city’s enfant terrible. Blogroll etc. « For The Love Of Dayton. And for a definition of “enfant terrible” “One whose Read More

The new god in business is Chairman Hank Paulson

How would you like it if all of a sudden, the government stepped in and decided to give your competition a few billion dollars- and make everyone else think your company is failing? That’s exactly what Hank Paulson and the Treasury department are doing to National City Bank- and Congress can’t get a straight answer. Read More

What’s on your corner? Trends in ‘progress’

Back in the 60’s and 70’s corners were covered with gas stations. Walking to elementary school there were three in a row- all were real gas stations, not the mini-marts of today, with repair bays, and guys who would not only pump your gas (it wasn’t legal to do self-serve) but also knew how to Read More

Some updates on this site: esrati.com

I’ve been publishing this blog since January 21, 2006. That’s 1028 days, with an average of .74 posts per day (758 posts). We average 4.46 comments a day (5,545 comments). In Oct 2008 there were 13,995 unique visitors. We’re averaging 711 visits per day. This month isn’t quite halfway there and we’ve had 8,258 unique Read More

“Bailing out GM” isn’t the answer. Transforming the auto industry is.

You know the adage about teaching a man to fish. It’s time to teach GM how to compete. I believe that GM is building the best vehicles it’s built in the last 40 years right now- and that it can be competitive, but here are the things the Government could do to really solve the Read More

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