Yesterday, 36 year old Johnny Damon, signed a one year deal with Tigers for 8 million dollars.
And he thought it was not fair.
Here is a guy that is on the downside of his career, throws like a 7 year old school girl and only had a great power hitting year because of the jet stream [...]
An influx of money for the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Florida and Michigan will be put into the housing agencies in order to help those states from the outrageous foreclosure issues they are having. President Obama is going to announce a 1.5 billion dollar plan at a press conference in Las Vegas today.
The [...]
Burger King is cutting costs by eliminating one slice of cheese from it’s “BK Dollar Double” one dollar cheeseburger. Although it may make a minuscule impact on the consumer, the savings to the restaurant chain could be as much as 2 cents per burger or a total of 2% of the gross revenue from [...]
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!
An unexpected rise in jobless claims hits us right in the face as filings for unemployment benefits surged to 473,000. It had fallen the previous week and we thought that there was a little light at the end of the unemployment tunnel. It is looking like the labor market is not [...]
Has the stimulus plan, which is one year old today, accomplished what it should have in this time frame?
You be the judge based on the following:
The Department of Transportation has approved over 10,000 state highway projects for a total of 34 billion dollars… only about 8 billion has been disbursed as of now. That seems [...]
Back in the day, the United States was booming with small business owners operating out of a home office when starting out. The concept, although not completely dead, is slowly morphing to the cafe and restaurant world. Many business owners are now meeting in places that have free wifi and fancy coffee as they market [...]
Having spent his entire professional playing career with the world’s most famous franchise, Derek Jeter is in his last year of his current contract and has the option to become a free agent at the end of this budding new season. The face of the Yankees is pushing 36 and at an age when [...]
The vast majority of ads don’t register with consumers. Here are seven straight-up reasons why your message probably isn’t getting through
Recently, an AdweekMedia poll of LinkedIn members posed this question: “Of the ads you see in a typical day, how many engage your attention?” A remarkable two-thirds of respondents said “a small minority of them.” [...]
Danica Patrick is heading to the play with the big boys this weekend, joining the likes of Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnheardt jr, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and the other well known racers at the Daytona 500. The granddaddy of all racing venues is a tough place to get her feet wet in Nascar but the [...]
Most businesses are steady year round but when a holiday pops up on the calender, they get a nice bump in business. This is the time that a business can generate some extra revenue for to cover those slow times. Valentines Day ideas are something that a business works hard on trying to make [...]