A CEO I worked for used to oft say “ I pay you to make the weather, not just report it.”
I thought it was a clever line … and use it in class … to raise the old expectation’s bar.
Well, apparently former Mexican President, Felipe Calderon and his buddies at Davos heard the same admonition.
According to sources, the Davos leaders are calling for an unprecedented investment of $14 trillion to green the global economy, to stop climate change and to preempt hurricanes.
Here’s more …
In California, Two-Buck Chuck has been upchucked … from $1.99 to $2.49.
Is nothing sacred?
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Here’s what’s behind the end-of-an-era pricing move …
First, a couple of disclaimers: (1) I don’t own a gun, I’ve never fired a gun … and I don’t plan to do either in my lifetime (2) I’m pro-Constitution, so I hate it when Constitutional rights are stripped away … that’s a very slippery slope (3) So, despite my personal aversion to guns, I’m not big on infringing other people’s right to own them (4) I love kids and I lived in Trumbull, CT … just down Rt.25 from Newtown … so, I took the school killings hard.
OK, with that out of the way, let’s look at the numbers to see how silly the DC debate has gotten.
Practically all of the political effort is on banning law abiders from owning assault rifles and high capacity ammunition clips.
Below is some FBI data that may surprise you …
The Homa Files 