Category Business

The Business category is relatively broad and will be sub-divided into a hierarchy as posts assigned to it accumulate.

Caterpillar’s Dealer Retail Sales

Below is a chart by Zero Hedge and Caterpillar (CAT)’s filings depicting CAT’s monthly dealer retail sales by region globally since 2010.  The good news is market analysts didn’t suggest the downturn in global sales was a result of bad…

Baseball’s Fiscal Cliff

Source: Cleveland Scene Magazine Baseball is a game of skills and probabilities. Baseball is also “six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours,” as Boston Globe’s Ray Fitzgerald describes it. So, if you like geeky analysis, economics, or baseball, then…

The Middle Manager’s Oath

Cover of Issue 9; Published 2002 You can find the comical article titled The Middle Manager’s Oath written by Christopher Mah at McSweeney’s, a magazine founded by editor Dave Eggers, the Bay Area Bard.  For those who are not aware…