I competed against Koch Petroleum in my working life. They created a great privately owned corporation by whipping we majors where we were weak. Big corporations, like the one I worked for, Amoco, tended to focus on areas that complemented our strength and generated volume. In Amoco’s case that was retailing gasoline, refining, logistics, and Read the full article…
Newspapers are going broke. The experts say the Internet is killing the print media business. Only we elders resort to papers for news. Often, as I’m gathering the four papers we have delivered at the cusp of dawn, some neighbor being dragged by a dog on a leash will make some comment about the quantity Read the full article…
The Wall Street Journal skewered Patrick Fitzgerald, the US attorney who sent Blago to trial. The Journal scored the trail Blago 23, Fitzgerald 1. The Journal called for Fitzgerald’s head. Said the charges were trumped up or, if Blago was guilty, Fitzgerald is incompetent. I live part of the year in Illinois. It’s hard to Read the full article…
