Investment
A lot of noise has been made lately about Mitt Romney and Warren Buffet’s tax rate being so low, while Buffet’s secretary’s tax rate is much higher. For starters, I don’t know what the secretary makes, but it has to be much higher than what I make, because I don’t think I’ve ever paid more [...]
I know defending the rich is not a popular thing to do right now, but…heck, I’ve never been popular anyway. Right now, due to relocation for work and the current housing market (caused as much by well-meaning politicians trying to help poor people who, oddly enough, can’t afford houses), I’m carrying two mortgages. That’s okay. [...]
I think I’ve mentioned before that when you open a business the salesmen come out like sharks around a whaling boat. The trouble is while some of the things they try to sell are obviously ludicrous to everyone but them, there are some ideas that actually do make sense. Take some of our recent “opportunities”, [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, when my business partners and I first opened our store we purposely did not try to do everything our competitors did. As part of our beginning analysis we looked at each of our competitors and evaluated ourselves against them. There were some things at which we knew we [...]