…delivered shortly after Christmas,” Dumaine said. It’s absolutely ridiculous.” “Then there are the first-class letters that are not delivered,” she said. “At $25 for a federal [duck] stamp, it is…

An older salesman (Lou Haer) used to call on me at Oscar Mayer when I was buying all of OM’s packaging and labels. We would talk and have lunch. Visited…

This reads like a Christmas tree where people or children get to pull a tag off the tree and whatever it states is your gift. Except this tree is the…

…courtyard of his apartment complex in Las Vegas. It was the kind of laid-back life he came southwest for. A Chrysler retiree from the Detroit suburbs, Perry enjoyed the warm…

…better to keep raw material rather than finished goods on hand. And also know your throughput . . . We had the same events, Christmas dinner with my boss, bonuses,…

…to support job growth. Two months after Dean’s post the nation is still going strong. Christmas maybe good for many. U.S. Workers are Far Better Off Than Four Years Ago…

…1847: “OUR HOLIDAYS.—We have but two that we can call entirely national. The New Year is a holiday to all the world, and Christmas to all Christians—but the “Fourth of…

…budget to which the new Republicans were demanding cuts. The debt ceiling is a holdover from World War I, when Congress stopped micromanaging the instruments the Treasury used to borrow…

I finished Every Valley: The desperate lives and troubled times that made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King on Christmas Eve. It somehow seemed fitting to read this book in this…

 – by New Deal democrat This Christmas week initial claims declined -1,000 to 219,000. The four week average rose 1,000 to 226,500. With the typical one week delay, continuing claims…