Wake Up America: Time to Up the Ante!

Think. What would it happen if Friday record breaking $138.54 jump of oil barrel price tag increases to $200.00 per barrel? If you think you do not need to hear this, think again, an intelligent prediction could mean 2012 for economic change. Do you have to be a rocket scientist and the economic maven of the world to know what will happen to America and other countries?

If you read the economic numbers of the 90s, the pattern expenses of the latest years since 911 and the way our ruling has kept inflating the economy to try keep us the consumers confident about spending, you might feel either betrayed or scared. The truth is surely hard to swallow. Since you are reading, educating yourself of perhaps reminding yourself of a given truth, you might like many of us have already said that is either time to up the ante or to wake up.

If consumer spending makes about 70% of all economic activity in Puerto Rico, USA among other countries, do not think it would be wise for the ruling to keep you confident about spending - let alone not keep you worry that you can lose your secure income source at any given time. If you have acquired a loan you probably know that it has been easier than ever to get yourself in debt with 5% interest rates. It is a genuine way to maintain the economy afloat to combat the inflation caused by energy prices.

Do you have a job right now? Think of brands, automobile industry to change previous particulars. To demonstrate the particulars even more clearly, not only many airline industries - but example brands like GM, Delphi, Lucent about many others that anyone can hit a little diligence and note that few of this brands are already in the hole with $2,200 for every automobiles leave their production plant do to pension expenses.

Now knowing a little about the law, by law, when a pension plan remains under funded for a certain timeframe, companies are required to use their earnings to fill the gap. What happens if there are not more earnings? Insurance covers everyone? If anyone by this stage thinks the economy is starting to improve, the only think few of us can personally say to friendly America is - wake up!

Most people are spending based on borrowed money, home equity loans being one personally enjoyed with earned luxury in the past year to mention with relief, how about you? Job creation are not the one to thank for this behavior, it is the flexibility the majority of people with access to a bank with some given credit that is still producing spending sprees.

To a look at a successful company, you do not need to see their finances - how about recognized maritime Crowley. Now if you are deep into these kind of studies you know that it is not about corporate growth, it is corporate re-structuring with new employed outsourcing operations in overseas countries to save company expenses - capitalistic moves.

Without much time, these are also classic reminding of our Internet bubble a few years back. Power, being unaware of the disasters ahead and Wall Street still having you at hello! Most importantly to know, I am not a fan of social studies, I am not a lawyer nor am I a maven scientist - many of us including myself just know how to read numbers and protect what is ours and what could be ours for the next days.

One thing is for sure, most of us have been suckered already plenty of times in the past, that is the good news for us living a realistic present and the future. There is no need to take a word of what I am saying, however, I would encourage you to take a look back when many of us were babies in the 80s, have a small study with Mr. Paul Volcker and start differentiating the likes of our latest contenders, my favorite fact numbered facts being countered with our latest Alan Greenspan.

There is no need to talk about record breaking federal deficits, record breaking bankruptcies, record consumer debt, oil diminishing, Iraq post-war issues, health care, weak dollar, pension crisis, global tensions, deficits in trade and many others that few of us do not have the time to form a 10 pound content gorilla. It is time for a change and upping up your anti, if you do it successfully and change what there is still time - your financial growth could be staggering!

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Acquisitions: Consider the Potential of Other Operations When Included in Your Companys Business

The most dynamic and highest potential business models are ones that enable other enterprises to achieve extraordinary results by crossing the boundary from being an independent producer to becoming part of the company, whether through acquisition or joint ventures. Many specialized distribution businesses provide business models that make this possible. Study this subject well, because it is a secret of creating vastly more growth and more fundamental business model enhancements.

Let's take a look at Sybron Dental Specialties. The firm provides many innovative products used by dentists to serve their patients. Most of these products were added by acquisition. Often the new offerings were developed in start-up partnerships between innovative dentists and people with product development skills. Such start-up companies have low volume, and high distribution costs. Often, they were too small to be able to afford much marketing.

When Sybron discovers a promising new product being offered by such an uneconomically-sized firm, Sybron often purchases the company. Being part of Sybron gives the product more credibility, so sales increase. On the larger volume, production processes can be improved and scaled up.

Being part of Sybron's distribution network also reduces the costs of getting the product from the manufacturing facility to the dentist. As a result, Sybron can turn a marginally profitable, small market share product into an industry-leading product with vastly lower costs and prices within a short period of time.

Sybron's leaders know thousands of dentists on a first-name basis and spend lots of time sharing ideas with those dental professionals. That frequent and extensive contact increases the likelihood that the company will hear about more promising new companies and products and that Sybron can share helpful information about the improvements it makes to those offerings after acquiring them.

Beckman Coulter was formed by the merger of two companies with complementary product lines in the bio-medical testing industry. While many companies would have primarily examined the opportunity to reduce costs by consolidating headquarters, sales activities, and manufacturing, Beckman Coulter's CEO, Jack Wareham, saw those areas as only the beginning of the cost-reduction possibilities.

Mr. Wareham had headed Beckman Instruments, Inc. before the merger. That firm was well known for its expertise in simplifying and automating tests to make them more reliable and less costly. He dreamed of putting all of the Beckman and Coulter tests into the same automated processes.

Such automation equipment is now being offered, and provides the lab with broader testing capabilities in ways that reduce both Beckman Coulter's costs and the costs of the laboratory running the tests. At the same time, physicians and patients get their tests done faster and more reliably.

Not content with that cost improvement, Mr. Wareham focused the combined operations on creating a linked set of technologies and tests that begin with fundamental medical research and end up in patient diagnosis and treatment. By having the biological measurements be conducted by consistent processes and chemical reagents, diseases can be more easily and inexpensively studied, diagnosed, and treated.

An example comes in the company's technology for detecting prostate cancer (the PSA and free PSA test). Once a tedious manual test, the test is now automatically processed on the firm's analyzer in 15 minutes. As a result, many lives will be saved while medical costs drop. By expanding the company's line of testing through acquisition, Beckman Coulter is now in a position to provide these sorts of benefits as the new generations of genetic and protein-based tests are developed.

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