Sometimes, external costs end up being internalized again. I wryly recognized that this week as I twitched while an emergency room nurse practitioner cut slits in my swollen but inadequately numbed thumb. She was draining fluid that had accumulated from…
Boycott BP now! You might want to reconsider that
Like a lot of people, my wife and I are angered by the management decisions BP took that led to the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But does that mean we should stop buying gas and milk…
Crises happen, yes, but we can cut the risks
Call me ‘BP Lotterman.’ Servicing my pickup last week proved to me how right U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky was in asserting that oil spills are just accidents that happen. Once in a while a series of things…
Supervalu-Walmart suit probably won’t help shoppers
The recent news that Supervalu, parent of Cub Foods, is suing Walmart to force it to reduce the number of food items in its Midway store says a lot about the ever-evolving structure of retailing in the United States and…