TOP SALARIES AND HOURLY PAY IMMEDIATELY IF YOU WANT TO THRIVE! LESSON: Immediately change your compensation plans to make all employees and owners’ compensation directly tied to their personal performance and the overall company performance. That is it! 95% of a company’s success is tied to the compensation plans for all stakeholders. That is a fact I have been pounding on the table about for 30 years. All the rest is noise. Adam Smith in 1776 wrote in The Wealth of Nations, “It is not from...

LESSON: Our Nation must focus on incentives for home ownership and homebuilding to save the economy, the GDP, and the culture of America. Previously, in our May 2, 2026, Newsletter, I reported how home ownership has beaten 99% of all other investment alternatives for young adults in the history of this great country. But the current environment was making this impossible, and the statistics were terrible. Reminder, in the last 55 years, the number of U.S. houses have doubled from 70 million...

LESSON: Stop permitting Baseball All-Star vote-getters to decline playing, NBA Load Management to occur, and College Football Bowl Game opt-outs – players and teams. Last week it was nice to see the American League finally win the Major League Baseball All-Star game for a change, but it was disappointing so many stars did not participate, many due to real injuries but many due to “rest and preparation of the second half of the season.” Can you imagine Pete Rose sitting out an All-Star game?...