Archive for December, 2008

10 things that won’t survive the recession

Friday, December 26th, 2008
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10 things that won’t survive the recession

Tight times, and budgets, will hasten the end for some things

I recieved this in an email this week and I think it is well said……..

The government says we’ve been in a recession for the past year. Experts say it’ll be at least another year before it’s over. And everybody says it’s the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Nice sound bite. What does that mean?

Who knows? We can be sure that this downturn will differ totally from the Depression, and also different from the many recessions we’ve suffered every decade or every other decade since the ’30s. I’m not an economist or a historian, but it seems to me that this recession will be something unprecedented.

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Merry Christmas

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
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I had a really good time at the Holiday Party this past Monday. Good Food, Good People, Good Friends! What more could you ask for.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to everyone..

Why do we have this disease called self employment?

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
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Well we all made it through another year. Some of us by the skin of our teeth. I have talked to a lot of business owners who are ready to hang it up. Lets face it a lot of things went wrong this year, AIG, Citibank, Wachovia, the real estate market dried up, gas was $4.00 a gallon, Fanny Mae, Freddi Mac, GM, Chrysler, (more…)