Category Archives: Business

This is why record profits by the oil companies isn’t something I’m perturbed about. The $100M is only a drop in the bucket compared to the loss of revenues. Somedays you get the gold mine other days you get the … Continue reading →

China and Viet Nam are being accused of dumping shrimp in the US and the US is about to impose some awful large tariffs on these countries’ exports of shrimp. I guess I can kiss cheap shrimp goodbye. Of course … Continue reading →

I’ve got a personal economic indicator that is telling me that things are looking up. This indicator is the number of callbacks resulting from all the resume’s I’ve sent out over the last few months. As I stated below, this … Continue reading →

Mitch Ratcliffe: The problem is that the media industry is not adapting to changing market conditions, not that illegal copying is destroying the industry. This is something I’ve been saying for a long time. Sure, there needs to be criminal … Continue reading →

When my oldest son started driving I bought him a cell phone. “What”, you ask, “How can you afford to give a cell phone to a teenager?” It was a Cricket phone. This service offered only local calling with no … Continue reading →

Oh, about that trip to Britol, TN I mentioned Tuesday morning, it was very fruitful. I’ve got some work now and I’ll have a little more in Chattanooga next week. I hope I can keep this going. One thing that … Continue reading →

After chasing down leads for the past two months I now have one purchase order in hand and another request for my services. Both of these jobs look like they may very well become ongoing things. Maybe things are about … Continue reading →