by Leif Jensen | Nov 24, 2020 | General |
Years ago, when I worked at WM my unit had a collector to collect on the smaller accounts that had past due amounts. We were the Hazardous waste unit, so our services were highly specialized, not to mention expensive and we dealt with small clients on one-off...
by Leif Jensen | Nov 23, 2020 | General |
I was reading an article about loans to the poor and I was appalled at what happens to these people. Apparently lending money to people who don’t have any is surprisingly profitable. In states where such stores are legal, such as Missouri, they are more common than...
by Leif Jensen | Oct 6, 2020 | Economy, General |
The carbon footprint of our food as been in the news for awhile. Not screaming headlines, but lurking in the shadows. Livestock farming produces from 20% to 50% of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Shrink That Footprint’s has a chart that shows that a meat...
by Leif Jensen | Aug 24, 2020 | General |
We alone are no longer number one. To stay number one, we need to recruit from other countries and our policies are now making this more difficult, if not impossible. We are not growing all that we need internally. In the competition for global talent the U.S. has...
by Leif Jensen | Aug 18, 2020 | General |
I was just reading that lockdowns may have to be put back on the table for those states that reopened too fast and have epic levels of new coronavirus. There is even concerns that Illinois’s numbers are going in the wrong direction as well. Just not as fast, but we...
by Leif Jensen | Aug 5, 2020 | General |
George Washington may well be the first environmentalist in our country. All planters knew that the tobacco crop depleted the soil. Others just bought more land, George looked into ways to replenish the soil. His research lead him to move away from tobacco as the...
