Recession
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Hard times: Are they real or only in your mind?
I think it is hard for anyone to understand the reality that change and difficulties offer opportunity. Some are opportunities…
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Boat biz helping to ease economic pain
As boat builders and their suppliers hire more employees in an effort to ramp up production, they are contributing to…
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Numbers, not guts, will see you through the recession
If you think your gut alone can predict the market accurately enough to run a business, then I suggest you…
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Fountain looks to rebound after bankruptcy
The news coming out of Fountain Powerboats hasn't been good for a while, but this week it got a little…
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It’s time to stop “duckin’ bullets”
By Peter Granata, President, Granata Design and the Marine Design Resource Alliance — There’s a new bandwagon pulling into town,…
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Finding the right answers
Denny Hecker is widely known in the Minneapolis/St. Paul-area. A long-time auto dealer based here in the Twin Cities, Hecker’s…
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Overcoming instinct
As evolved as humans are, there’s still plenty of evidence that we’re driven in part by animal instincts. Just look…
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Alphabet of the recovery
Add another letter to the alphabet economists have created to try and predict the economic recovery. I was familiar with…
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When will it end?
Of all the talk about this recession, there’s one question, of course, that no one can really answer: When will…
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The Beige Book’s outlook
At the Marine Dealer Conference & Expo last November, Brunswick CEO Dusty McCoy said [and I’m paraphrasing here] that while…
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