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Last Monday, IMAX (IMAX) announced their first $100 million box office quarter for the 4th quarter, driven by $54 million from Avatar. In the past week, IMAX outfitted theaters did about 25% of Avatar’s domestic box office with just 2%…
We’re not in a recession. We’re in a depression. – Bobby Mahan, a local real estate broker Two years ago, Peter Goodman wrote an award winning piece on the real estate bust in Cape Coral, FL: “This Is The Sound…
Cover stories about the stock market tend to occur at points near maximum momentum on the upside or the downside. – Steve Sjuggerud, “Wringing Profits From Magazines”, Investment U, July 8, 2003 What does Time Magazine putting Ben Bernanke on…
I finished basketball in 1978, then went into my own business in 1980 and did it for 29 years… Now I get to the end of that career and probably should have retired. But there was a calling greater than…
Human nature, in no form of it, could ever bear prosperity. – John Adams Letter to Thomas Jefferson, quoted in David Brooks “The Next Culture War” Over the past few years, however, there clearly has been an erosion in the…
The New York Times has an interesting section on advice for incoming college freshman from some prominent people in today’s paper. Here are excerpts of some advice I liked: It’s easy to think that college classes are mainly about preparing…
The Pfizer unit Pharmacia & Upjohn pleaded guilty to a single felony charge that accused the company of marketing its anti-inflammatory drug Bextra for broader uses and higher dosages than those approved by the Food and Drug Administration. – “In…
My sales from ’88 to ’92 were $10,000 to $13,000 a month, and the cost of goods was only $1,000 to $2,000 a month. Then they started putting out so much product, raising the price on packs and putting chase…