The only way globalization pays off at all for America is if the nations that are the current recipients of outsourcing by American companies then become serious consumers of other American goods and services. This article about Reebok’s push into Asia as a serious growth-oriented consumer market is promising in that regard. Without globalization and […]

Another MaxBat article, this one about how Jim Anderson got started in the baseball bat business. Like most successful entrepreneurs, the business was started almost by accident. But after it got started its success has not been an accident.

I’ve been talking with Jim Anderson of MaxBat for several months, and he knows what he’s doing. I’ve started to sell some bats for him in my spare time, and he really makes great maple baseball bats - and they look great too. He got blindsided a bit by some new Major League Baseball regulations […]