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Leaders, Laggards & Lugs
The focus of today's piece is separating the leading data we are getting from the laggard. Those business owners who focus on the lagging data will miss turns in business trends (such as supply...
Are You Paying Staff Enough? – Part Two
We’d like to talk about war today. Not Ukraine, but the war for talent. That price went up this last week, not just in demands for pay but also working conditions. Meet your employees where they are...
Are You Paying Staff Enough? – Part One
Are you paying your staff enough, so that they not only stay but are engaged? Go ahead, look on Google. Searches for people willing to move for higher salaries or better working opportunities have...
Leaving CA: Moving a Manufacturer to a Smaller Town
Thoughts on Moving a Manufacturer to a Smaller Town Students of financial history know the stories of company towns. It was common during mining booms and in the early days of manufacturing. When an...
Is The BOTW Sale A Lending Signal?
Is The BOTW Sale A Lending Signal? Sometimes, what a company does says more about it than what they say. As you may or may not know, Bank of the West, a large California & Midwest bank has...
The 12 Months to Recession
Without Interruption: The 12 Months to Recession Prices are starting to bite into future business plans, and it is not only in energy. Different countries have increased local interest rates 106...
You’ve Been “St*cked”
Don't look now, but you just got "st*cked". 2022 is the year "When Just-In-Time" changed to "Just-In-Case" (as our guest Andy Tomat said this week). We have previously warned about the growing...
Upcoming Price Changes
Crime and security are a huge problem in many cities Los Angeles is no exception. There has been much recent talk about inflation driving interest rates higher. Commentators do not separate...
The most important Question for 2022: Will interest rates rise?
Will interest rates rise in 2022? The easy answer is that interest rates have already risen. Rates have already risen in the longer-term maturities, such as 10 year Treasuries, going from 1.2% in...
You look like a loan broker…are you one?
How Diamant Carré differs from others There are three significant ways we are different from a typical loan broker: our culture at Diamant Carré, the desired background of the employees we hire...
Christmas Saved
Nancy’s ears were still ringing from the customer yelling at her on the other end of the phone. Sales were going to drop next year. They were angry when they called. Now, they had left. As...
Read This Now & Avoid Regret Later
Read This Now & Avoid Regret Later One of our research people follows supply chain issues closely. In fact, they often visit the Ports of LA and Long Beach personally to see what is...