I used to work for a loco manufacturer. The railroads haven’t been buying new locos for almost 4 years now. There was a flurry of buying before the new emissions standards, but it’s been nothing since then. The railroads are only doing limited rebuilds of existing to conserve capital. Warren Buffet saw this recession…

+1 toes-knees-hip

Every time someone talks about this, I’ve got to wonder what a couple hundred NRA fans would do when confronted with a battalion or so of real soldiers, complete with armor & air support. A real, live insurrection (that’s what it would be called) would pretty much put posse comitas on hold.  I’ve got to imagine the…

Trump backed himself into that corner the day he was elected. His brand has always been about winning biggly. He can’t not run again, no matter how bad it is. He can’t be impeached, as he will have lost the Senate. He can’t lose the election, because he doesn’t lose. Whether he truly understands this, or is lost in…

Wait, you expect solutions from HamNo? You must be new here.

I was in Beijing ~4 years ago and went to Tienanmen Square.  It’s very heavily guarded and there’s nothing there to indicate what happened.  As an American, it was very unsettling to see.

What about the most electrifying weapon of all...

HR is never there for the employees. If you don’t learn that in the first 6 months of employment, you should probably not be allowed to use scissors.  HR’s whole role is to ensure the human part of the equation costs the company as little as possible, including defense from lawsuits.  If they tell you anything else,…

A friend of mine was the VP of HR in a Fortune 500 company.

We’ve been buying lease returns for years, and typically hold on to them for 8-10 years. Yes, they don’t have all the latest features. Yes, they aren’t completely tricked out. Yes, I have more cash in hand.

Do you think the Secret Service or some other Deep State (TM) operatives are keeping a buffet of his favorite greasy food just off camera in hopes of exacerbating a stroke/ diabetic coma/ exploded colon just to get rid of him in a more embarrassing way than Trump is already looking at?

Dude:

I’ll put your best alumni - Charlie Batch - vs. ours - Terry Crews.

Grew up in Detroit, went to Western.  Would always scream on 94 as we approached Climax on the way to school.

This is one of the reasons student loan debt is the next housing bubble. Yes, Harvard as a private institution can have a $40B endowment, but public unis do it to. The University of Michigan has an endowment of $12B, Ohio State is $5B, USC is $5.4B. Any one of these institutions could go tuition free for the…

As someone who has kids, I’ve always respected people who understand they just plain don’t want kids. Kids do become your whole life. To have the self-awareness that it’s just not for you when everyone around you is doing it is great. I’ve met a lot of people who shouldn’t be parents but are. I think if they were more…

Tiffany.  She’s been playing us all for fools.

The interesting point is going to be when the Republican party realizes he’s become more trouble then he’s worth.  I would imagine it will be an almost lock step pivot with McConnell, Graham, and the rest of the machine throwing him under the bus all within the same 24 hour period.  Trump won’t have any idea why all…

I’d be less excited about that than finding out how much he’s really worth. It would be great to see the commercial “Trump says he’s worth $3.8B dollars, but in reality, his tax returns show he owes Deutsche Bank$152M. If he’s lying about that, what else is he lying about?”