Corporate America’s Pile-O-Cash from the Big Picture…..hat tip to Invictus….fenomenal post with research to back it up….I keep on saying that the shit has hit the fan and our economy suffers from a massive miss-allocation of capital. If consumers and small businesses are supposed to be 70% of the economy and we bailed out the banks [...]
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There are a few reasons why what is happening to Europe and the Euro are relevant to the wine business and me personally. Many of you may know that I was born and raised in Europe and still have family and many friends living there. What happens to the Euro has repercussions all over the world [...] All of that hyper-ventilating for nothing…here’s a report from WKTV from Utica, New York. Again, just like last year, I though there was no-way-in-hell that this thing was going to pass…and it did not. New York store owners need to get back to running their businesses and stop worrying about the possibility of changes in NY [...] Here is a great article from AFP I picked off Goggle, about the fake Pinot Noir Gallo was buying for their “La Byciclette” so called Pinot Noir and guess what?…one of the other mass producers of wine – Constellation – was also buying cheap Pinot Noir, as per the NY Times, Eric Asimov…and all that is [...] N.Y. Governor Patterson has proposed a few changes in the current NY SLA law, to allow sales in supermarkets, it seems mainly in an attempt to raise extra funds through the additional licensing vs. for the sake of changing the law for someone’s true benefit. The idea has been attempted before, but has yet to yield [...] Governor Paterson has proposed to change NY State Liquor laws in a relatively drastic fashion, including allowing wine sales in grocery stores, letting current wine shops sell many other items, allowing multiple ownership of retail stores and also extending the credit window for retail customers from 30 to 60 days. I certainly disagree with a few [...] Proposal to expand sales of wine to grocery stores was killed by liquor store lobby. by Lisa Fickenscher Supporters of legislation that would put wine in grocery stores say the proposed bill is dead. Gov. David Paterson and the Legislature are in budget negotiations now, but according senior staffers familiar with the talks, the so-called wine bill has been [...] A very good article by Eric Asimov came out in the N.Y. Times yesterday, offering several points of view regarding the proposed law in N.Y. State law that would possibly allow wine sales in supermarkets. I have argued that there are many other laws that need to be changed, if the current law is to pass, [...] Last night, in honor of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America, I poured some Rad Grapes at a really cool new wine store in Manhattan, called California Wine Merchants. The featured wines last night were from the family owned Monticello Vineyards located in the Oak Knoll district [...] |
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