Chocolate, Flip Flops and Toys

Well a busy day for recalls, also a rather gross day. 
Now I never think of China when I think of chocolates but then that’s just me.  But for some unlucky shoppers in South Korea, they found a little something extra in their chocolates and it wasn’t a caramel center.  It was worms.
  
This is just [...]

Hedge Fund Managers Top the Earnings List

Often people attack CEO’s as being over paid, and that may be true for some, but in comparison to private equity and hedge funds, it looks like peanuts.
 
Hedge funds and private equity firms often pay the 15% federal capital gains tax rate, they do this by claiming their earnings as capital gains not income.  So [...]

The Toxic 55

A fellow WordPress blogger has put together a list of the “55 Famous Toxic Foods From China.”  Worth a look since this blogger does focus a lot more on China than I do.  I’ve been reading his blog for a while and what he says is often inline with independent source of my own.

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The Mattel Recall

Brand is the big key in marketing and business these days; it is how you interface with customers.  Everyone interacts with your brand on a daily basis in the consumer goods world.  But what happens when you screw up and the mask is pulled back and we find, the brand is more smoke and mirrors [...]

Not Made in China

A lot of people who are shopping for school clothing and supplies, are telling me how tired they are of everything being made in China.  They are just worried, are they sending their kids off the school with something that could harm them?  Well now you can buy your kids, or yourself, a shirt that [...]

Don’t Ask China to Change

We have seen a lot of recalls of products made in China this year, a lot!  The latest million plus product recall from Mattel just being the latest in a long line of and certainly not the last of recalls of China made products.  At this point we have reached a critical mass in terms [...]

The Wisdom Lost in the Numbers

I spent the weekend reading as I had a lot of reading to catch up on.  That happens in the summer since I spend more time doing outdoor and active activities than in the winter when I’m snowed in with little to do.  But I felt guilty having those books just sit there collecting dust [...]

35W Collapse

I live in the Minneapolis area where the 35W bridge collapsed yesterday.   The response by citizens and rescue workers was great.  Many in the business community dropped what they were doing to focus on recovery and aid.  It was a sleepy summer in Minneapolis this year.  Our biggest news event of the day was out [...]