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If The Economy Is Down, Why Is The Stock Market Surging?
Many of us in the world of finance are staring at the financial pages day after day wondering how is it possible that unemployment is off the chart, yet the stock market is surging. We all understand that unemployment is a lagging indicator and that the economy absolutely cleans up and repairs itself long before hiring starts to take place, but many of us financial people are wondering "is there really a corporate reinvigoration underway?" The real question should be: "what's behind the stock market surge?" In a meeting that I moderate with 50 or 60 of the top financial minds in Los Angeles, we discussed this very topic just

What Will Christmas Be Like This Year?
For the first time in the history of marketing, there may actually be some truth in advertising. This year, when retailers advertise, “get it while we have it”, that might actually be true. Banks and lenders have reduced the amount of credit that borrowers can borrow. That means that the inventory that manufacturers can manufacture is necessarily reduced. Because banks have cut lines of credit, retailers have less money to buy products that they resell to consumers. And similarly, importers have less money to import and distributors have less money to be able to buy products to distribute. In general, inventories will be much leaner this holiday

Where Is The Bottom?
There's a lot of talk these days about finding the bottom of the real estate market or finding the bottom of the stock market. It's important for anybody who is an investor to understand that "the bottom" is a historical perspective. The only time you ever know where the bottom of the market was is by reading the paper a week, a month, or a year after that bottom has occurred. There's no way to know where the bottom is when you're in the heat of the moment. Accountants are experts at finding the bottom because so many of them look at the world through the rearview mirror of their cars. They see the world backwards and they,

Does Customer Service Get Any Better Than This?
This isn't the first time that I have written about the customer service provided by Ladin Lincoln Mercury & Hyundai and their Sales Manager Gary Faga. See http://tinyurl.com/ygeyx4w. Here is an update on Gary and his company. A couple years ago, I leased a new car for my oldest daughter when she turned 16. She drove the car for a couple years, went off to college, and at then we gave the car to my son when he turned 16. Recently, the lease on the car came up and I purchased the car outright. As part of the transaction, I asked the dealership to touch up a few items on the car before we took full possession of it as the owners. The dealershi

Can An Electronic Tool Change Everything?
From time to time, I like to deviate from my typical business rants and tackle some technologies and gadgets that I stumble upon which help entrepreneurs to be incredibly more efficient and more productive. I've been known to say that entrepreneurs produce at 20 times the rate of their corporate counterparts. The reason that this is so is partly because they have to — and it's partly because of their swift use and early adoption of cool technologies. In the last few months, I've stumbled upon a few new tools that I'd like to share with you. I'll share them over the next few weeks. The first one, though, has changed the wa