July 2008 - Posts

• Buy? Sell? Hold?

  What a week! On Monday, at the summer meeting of the Casting Industry Suppliers Assn. , I listened to two presentations on the challenges and difficulties of managing a metalcasting operation — one from the second-generation owner/operator of a foundry Read More... Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 1:57 PM by REB | 0 Comments

• Coming attractions

  A certain “dark” movie is lighting up movie screens this weekend, reportedly earning $67 million in its first day of showings. Our expectations are bit less than that, and also a bit brighter, we hope. We’ve introduced a new venture we believe regular Read More... Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008 9:48 PM by REB | 0 Comments

• Show me another

  There is a journalistic truism that one incident is not necessarily news, and two may be a coincidence, but three similar developments indicate a trend. If a liquor store gets robbed on Friday, no news. If another one gets hit on Saturday, that’s not Read More... Posted Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:44 PM by REB | 0 Comments

• Workers of the world unite

  Keeping political issues out of my published opinions is a constant objective for me, and yet sometimes a subject emerges and the politics of it are just too glaring to overlook. “The United Steelworkers, North America's largest private sector union, Read More... Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:58 AM by REB | 0 Comments