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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – How to Respond to the Government’s Takeover of the Economy
Recent government action ignited a new debate regarding the extent of Federal control over the marketplace. While some would collate the government’s degree of control to that of its spending, we believe this relationship to be inappropriate because purchasers exert indirect influence over an organization. Instead, we suggest the government’s direct control over an industry [...]
Read moreStrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – You Don’t Get Something for Nothing
Some would argue that with President Obama’s signing of health care legislation into law a great deal of uncertainty was eliminated from the marketplace. While the uncertainty associated with whether or not health care legislation would become law has been resolved, the new healthcare entitlement itself represents an injection of new uncertainty into the market. [...]
Read moreStrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Self Inflicted Uncertainty
On February 2, Dow Jones reported the Obama Administration’s decision not to expand the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve as had been provisioned under the Energy Act of 20051. Energy Secretary Steven Chu indicated the basis for the decision was that the current reserve of 727 million barrels of crude oil met international standards. (The International [...]
Read moreStrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Believe None of What You Hear
Ever known a politician to renege on a campaign promise, say something misleading or simply just wrong? So many politicians lie (we don’t mince words here… if our children told such stories we’d punish them for lying) that we accept it as a part of the political game. And members of both parties are guilty [...]
Read moreStrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Unnecessary Uncertainty
Washington dithering, favoritism, and power grabs are crushing the American marketplace. The question is: Can it survive? All markets possess a natural amount of uncertainty. And it is from uncertainty that great business opportunities are born. Some uncertainty, however, is unnecessary; creating risk without proportionate reward. Fully avoidable, unnecessary uncertainty arises from the efforts of [...]
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