October 2009 - Posts

• Too late to change?

  A short report in Business Week prompted a series of thoughts, most of which I'm sure the writer never intended. His simple, but vast, premise is that "the age of transportation" ended in 1969, and that ever since then we've just been tweaking the already Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:07 PM by REB | 0 Comments

• Bottom dollar

  More than two years ago the Federal Reserve Bank made a historic cut in interest rates, causing the value of the U.S. dollar to drop decisively. It was striking because that move pushed the dollar into parity with the Canadian dollar, reversing a smug Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:20 AM by REB | 0 Comments

• The end of an idea

  The demise of Saturn was a surprise to me, though it shouldn’t have been one: the auto industry is at rock bottom, so finding investors to stake any venture in that sector is probably impossible. But, for the past 25 years Saturn represented something Read More... Posted Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:05 PM by REB | 0 Comments