Dear Readers: Here is the another installment from Jason “Ladies Man Wannabe” Busch. Jason’s wife, MetalMiner’s Lisa Reisman, just sent me a digital photo from the cruise, showing Jason posing with Minnie Mouse, a nervous smile on his face. Now, Jas…
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Joy here, Gentle Spend Matters Readers. Methinks Jason doth oink too much. Jason would have you think him a rakish, man-about-town ladies’ man, telling the pros how it’s done. So that we don’t hurt his feelings, we’ll indulge his delusion, and prete…
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For those of you feeling the financial pressures of the season, here’s some perspective for you. I read this for the first time recently and laughed. Ah, the fickle ways in which spend logic toys with us mortals. It’s amusing that a man whose life i…
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Fires are tragic. Let’s hope no one was hurt in this blaze on Michigan avenue this morning. But I must say, with apologies to my lovely wife, that this will save some damage to the family Amex bill in shoe purchases if indeed Chicago’s Nordstrom is o…
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The end of the calendar year is fast approaching and no doubt some suppliers will be offering terrific deals in the hopes of moving their sales numbers closer to their annual targets. The Congress, especially the Senate, is hard at work preparing the…
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In consulting circles, it’s been hard to meet someone in the past few
weeks without cracking a Tiger Woods and Accenture joke (“Infidelity. Delivered.”)
Given the rising tide of jokes tied to the
Accenture brand, it felt like it was only a ma…
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Sometimes the Onion really is quite funny. It just satirically reported one of its best stories in recent memory: U.S. Deports Lou Dobbs — CNN Host Had Been Living Illegally In Country Since 1961. In my view, given that Dobbs is so anti-trade and an…
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I’ve decided to throw in the towel as a blogger and take a real job. From here forward, I’ll be working half my time as an analyst and half as a journalist. I decided to take this route to minimize the amount of time I have to work while maximizing m…
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As you can probably tell, this anti-dumping case has gotten me fired up. Whenever I see companies angling for artificial protection from competitors at the expense of everyone else in the market, it makes my blood boil. What’s to stop any US company …
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As I’ve said before, for those procurement organizations which are increasingly focused on global sourcing (and sourcing to serve production and demand in local markets), it’s more than worth embracing your customs and trade team (which often have fa…
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