business Archives - Small Things Count https://smthingscount.com/tag/business/ Making a More Loving World/Free Books Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:59:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Fireworks & Your Insurance https://smthingscount.com/2020/07/01/fireworks-your-insurance/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:53:12 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=9390 Independence Day is this weekend. Traditionally, we celebrate the 4th of July by setting off fireworks in our yard or maybe in the middle of

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]]> Personal: My Mom https://smthingscount.com/2019/05/11/personal-my-mom/ Sat, 11 May 2019 15:49:27 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8037 My mother had three kids, kept a spotless house, worked in the family business, dealt with laundry down steep cement steps in a dank, unfinished

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]]> Is Airbnb Costing the Rest of Us Too Much? https://smthingscount.com/2019/02/04/is-airbnb-costing-the-rest-of-us-too-much/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:01:12 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7737 In light of Airbnb’s possibly being able to get around taxes and regulations imposed on others, the Economic Policy Institute has released a report, The economic

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]]> Great Places to Shop Today https://smthingscount.com/2018/11/24/great-places-to-shop-today/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 18:08:11 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7509 Mall is crowded. Are you getting a good deal online when you can’t see and touch the item? Who can use your money more–the CEO

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]]> You’ve Come a Long Way, Lady…. https://smthingscount.com/2016/03/08/youve-come-a-long-way-lady/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:50:57 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=4647 [Although this was sent out, at least in part, as a self-promotion for a group called “Credo” (I’ve left off the parts that do that),

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]]> Sad News: No More Chocolate https://smthingscount.com/2014/11/18/sad-news-no-more-chocolate/ Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:54:18 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=3271 Get out your Kleenex, fellow chocolate-lovers.  Soon the cocoa plant–chocolate is made from its seeds–may be be no more.  Disease and pests are killing off

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]]> Kids Are Not Good Business https://smthingscount.com/2014/11/17/kids-are-not-good-business/ Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:49:31 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=3267 This morning’s news brought a disturbing statistic: 1 in 3 American children are homeless, and 2 1/2 MILLION kids were without a home sometime during

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]]> Prison Cell-Phone Business https://smthingscount.com/2014/04/11/prison-cell-phone-business/ Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:10:18 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=2692 Don’t believe that the kidnapping of Frank Arthur Janssen, a prosecutor’s father, was orchestrated via cell phone from prison?  How is it possible for inmates to

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]]> Let People SNAP Back https://smthingscount.com/2013/11/01/let-people-snap-back/ Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:01:20 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=2220 As America struggles to pull itself out of a devastating economic slump, 48 million of us have just had their chances of survival pushed even

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]]> Suspicions re: Air Traffic https://smthingscount.com/2013/04/26/suspicions-re-air-traffic/ https://smthingscount.com/2013/04/26/suspicions-re-air-traffic/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:32:14 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=1568 Call me suspicious. Or jaded. Or weary. I’m glad that Congress is speeding a sequester-necessitated bill through to switch funds so that all air traffic

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