STRATEGIC PLANNING
Large companies place resources and focus on strategic planning at least once a year. Small businesses seldom complete a strategic plan. Yet in every way, planning is just as important to a small business as to a large business.
While operating a small business successfully can be very rewarding, the typical small business does not have the staying power financially to weather a business downturn. Avoiding a business downturn requires that business managers not only attend to the day-to-day functions of the business but also have an eye on the horizon so that “bumps in the road” … Continue Reading
Blog Editor’s Note: Glenn Beck is labeled a “conspiracy theorist.” However, you can rest assured no one presenting views this extreme on a regular basis could do so from a corporate media platform unless powerful interests want the public at large to get used to these kinds of ideas. So perhaps Beck’s corporate masters are “conspiracy theorists,” or at least pretending to be.
Beck is generally right on target with his key facts. However, he generally points the finger at the undefined “left” as the villain. Let’s just say the real villains are far more diversified than that. So put away … Continue Reading
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Blog Editor’ Note: That’s nearly 5 million million dollars and nearly half the current Federal deficit, which continues to rise at an unprecedented rate. But don’t worry, analysts can still find individual pieces of data that sound optimistic.
Unless lawmakers make big changes, the interest Americans will have to pay to keep the country running over the next decade will reach unheard of levels.
By Jeanne Sahadi
(CNN Money) Here’s a new way to think about the U.S. government’s epic borrowing: More than half of the $9 trillion in debt that Uncle Sam … Continue Reading
Blog Editor’s Note: This piece delivers more exposure than the usual establishment press critique of the current controversy surrounding the Federal Reserve. However, the focus on key economists with Fed connections ignores the fact the identity of the private investors with controlling interests in the Federal Reserve is what they REALLY don’t want you to know. That’s why Fed supporters are open to a little more transparency they can control, but will put their full global financial weight in front of any attempt to conduct a full audit of the organization.
(This Huffington Post) As the debate over an audit of … Continue Reading
House panel investigates
By Richard Simon
(The Los Angeles Times) Reporting from Washington – Hundreds of new jobs in phantom congressional districts. Nearly 500 new teaching slots in a Chicago school district that employs only 290.
As the White House tries to show that its massive stimulus package has created or saved 1 million jobs, media outlets and critics have contended that some of the administration’s numbers are faulty.
On Thursday, a congressional committee tried to sort out the questions: Are the flawed data the result of Democratic spin meant to show that President Obama’s economic policies are working? Or are they … Continue Reading
(The California Chamber of Commerce) The California Chamber of Commerce is urging the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal to reverse a district court ruling that could result in numerous more wage-and-hour lawsuits against California employers.
The CalChamber is arguing that the district court ruling fails to follow the plain language of the law and disregards the long-standing California requirement that exemption determinations be made based on an analysis of employees’ individual job duties.
The CalChamber has joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Employers Group in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in … Continue Reading
By Dan Huston
Although many business leaders are obsessed with the concept of branding, few really understand what it means to develop a successful brand. Here’s what it really takes.
(Biznik) How do you define your brand? Is it how you position yourself in the minds of stakeholders and the public in general? Is it shaped by what people think you do and how you do it? Is it determined by the design of your website, the quality of your marketing collateral or the success of your public relations efforts?
I just finished reading Gregg Lederman’s Achieve … Continue Reading
Blog Editor’s Note: The largest expansion of central bank-issued fiat currency in the history of mankind attacking the greatest financial blowout ever encountered in terms of size isn’t creating an asset bubble? If so, it’s because they can only patch the balloon so many times before it can no longer hold hot air, and that’s all it ever was anyway.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s low interest rate policy was meant to encourage investors to move into riskier assets and there are no signs currently that an asset bubble is building in the United States, the central bank’s number-two … Continue Reading
(Metro.net) Put together a group of at least 5 people interested in forming a new vanpool to a worksite in Los Angeles County, and you may be eligible to receive a $400 monthly lease subsidy with the Metro Vanpool Program
Building interest to start a vanpool serving my area
Do I need to own a van to start a vanpool?
Steps to getting started
If I start a vanpool, do I have to be the … Continue Reading
Blog Editor’s Note: Kilroy Realty has major holdings near LAX and Long Beach Airport.
By DEBORAH CROWE
( Los Angeles Business Journal) Kilroy Realty Corp. said Monday that its operating partnership will offer $150 million in senior debt in a private placement to institutional buyers.
The Los Angeles real estate investment trust said the exchangeable senior unsecured notes from Kilroy Realty L.P. will be due 2014. The interest and exchange rates and other terms will be determined in negotiations between the company, operating partnership and initial purchasers. Under certain circumstances, the notes may be exchanged for cash up to the principal amount … Continue Reading
