Nothing Meaningful to Say

The past week has been very challenging for me to write about business. I have posted several items related to my wine blog, but am having a very difficult time writing anything coherent on the business side.

That doesn't mean that I don't think that there is a lot to write about including:

1. The President's incoherent speech on health care (psst...he means health insurance). Even Chuck Todd who has a man crush on the President was agog after he received a 7 minute non-response to a fairly straight forward question. If the President was serious about this stuff, he could hit it out of the park had he tied the 40th anniversary of the moon landing with the health care (err health insurance) plan. Could have gone Kennedy very easily but utterly failed to do so.

2. People put too much value on what they do. There was a story in HBR some years ago about how people prefered the brand of cakemix which they added an egg over the brand in which the egg components were included in the mix. This seemed to indicate that the bakers prefered the product solely on the fact that they had contributed to the cake in a larger measure than had they used the brand with all the ingredients all ready there. Makes me think about all the hub-bub about global warming and the move to saving energy. Is this just the same as adding an egg to the cake mix?

3. Cash for Clunkers. Chrysler is offering to double the maximum $4500 contribution. Not a shocker since they are playing with the house's chips. The really sad part is that there is not a single car in the Chrysler or Dodge lineup which is the least bit interesting to me. Perhaps that is the problem