I am not a huge fan of Walmart, but… I think the message in the email I got might have a few points. —– 1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day. 2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute! 3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year. 4. Wal-Mart... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Repo Men- A “Must Read”
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party PoliticsLong, but very worth the time… ============= If you’re making money on the Wall Street scale — which is nothing like your boring, middle-management in the Fortune 500, Hamptons-and-Mercedes, barely–a–1 percenter type money — then you can buy basically anything. When real-estate investor Robert Rosania put part of his storied champagne collection up for sale in 2008, the auction was predicted to... Read more
Amy Chua: Tiger Mom’s Long-Distance Cub
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Philosophy, Politically correctWe need more ‘tiger Moms’… ======== A lot of people have asked me whether I still “tiger mom” my older daughter, Sophia, now that she’s in college. Do I block sleepovers from afar, drill her on schoolwork remotely, monitor piano practice by Skype and make sure that she never watches TV or plays computer games? Actually, it’s just the opposite. My husband and... Read more
The Pentagons Vindication
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, The Left“Ops, I was wrong… ” Senator … (don’t hold your breath) ======== U.S. forces left Iraq this month, but at least one Iraq war tradition has continued: Years after politicians and pundits manufactured a headline-grabbing controversy to tar the Bush-era Pentagon, investigators have found no wrongdoing. That’s the conclusion of the Defense Department’s Inspector General after a two-year probe of the Pentagon’s program... Read more
Chinese Foreign Aid to USA
December 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EconomicsEconomist Mark J. Perry at american.com, Dec. 2: Let me break from [the] consensus about China’s currency policy and present an alternative position: In the best of all possible worlds for the United States, China would use its labor and capital to manufacture consumer products like clothing, footwear, furniture, electronics, and appliances and send $300 billion worth of these products to... Read more
