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U.S. retail Internet sales are expected to reach $146 billion in 2008, a 14.3% rise from 2007—and yes, that reckoning takes into account the economic downturn, which has actually boosted online sales because of high gas prices and reduced driving. While U.S. retail sales rose by 2.8% between the first quarter of 2007 and the [...]

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The poet Horace once said, “Ira furor brevis est” - “Anger is a brief madness.” This is taken to be a strict warning against getting letting your emotions run away with you. The implication is that anger is a poor alternative to logic and reason.
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In the book The Godfather, the village that Don [...]

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My post about solo practice medicine brought along some interesting comments and trackbacks. In addition to traditional solo practice medicine, there are other models of medicine that are more economically efficient. One such model is the group model of medicine. In this model, several solo practitioners band together to form a “group” to share costs [...]

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