Free Trade Isn’t Always Fair Trade

A few days ago, I wrote a five-part essay called How to Solve the Trade Deficit in response to a reader question about trade policy in the United States. The reader, Adam, responded on his blog.  Here is my followup to his commentary. I Would Love to Run Trade Surpluses But It Isn’t Going to [...]

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You Can Tell I Grew Up in the Embroidery Industry …

Not only do I own Mount Olympus Awards and MOA Team Supply, but my parents own a company called Chenille Appeal, which is one of the nation’s largest wholesale chenille businesses (they started it when I was in junior high and it has grown exponentially over the past 16+ years). Anyway, I was on MacRumors.com [...]

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Breakfast of Tycoons by Carl Barks

We added Breakfast of Tycoons to the official Carl Barks collection at Mount Olympus Awards.  We’ve been selectively acquiring more and more of his stuff when the price is attractive and it just fits with all of the framed stock certificates and financial artwork. I’ve identified a few other pieces we are interesting in actively [...]

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The Wholesale Varsity Jacket Award Catalogs Are Going to the Printers!

MOA Team Supply, the wholesale varsity jacket award division of Mount Olympus Awards, has finally finished its catalog and after being proof-read, they will go to the printers for mass dispersion throughout the nation’s school districts. We offer factory direct pricing, fast (if not the fastest) delivery in the industry at 2-3 weeks for most [...]

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Our Value Investing Research Process for Stocks

A week or two ago, I wrote an article called Understanding Stock Repurchase Plans for About.com, a division of The New York Times, which discussed Sonic Restaurant and the massive stock buy back program that had taken place over the past few years. In it, I walked the readers through a lot of the math [...]

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Snowstorm Hit During Our First Price War Making It Magical

Remember the industry price war we decided to start?  As we were rolling out the wholesale business site and “flipping the switch” so to speak, a beautiful, huge snow storm hit and the images were great so I thought I’d post some of them here.    

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Within 12 Hours, We Declare War on the Letterman Jacket Industry

Last night, the shareholders of Mount Olympus Awards, LLC had a 4 or 5 hour scheduled meeting in a local office and solidified our plans for the business, which I discussed a few days ago (see Wholesale Chenille Letters, Patches, and Varsity Jacket Business Launching).  The end decision was we are going much farther than [...]

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Wholesale Chenille Letters, Patches, and Varsity Jacket Business Launching

A few months back, I told you that we were launching a new division of Mount Olympus Awards called MOA Team Supply.  I explained that we were going after an entirely new market, specifically athletic directors and schools that want to purchase wholesale chenille letters, chenille patches, and even wholesale varsity jackets.  We’ve finally got [...]

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The New Team Supply Business Launches This Week

There’s some exciting news coming out of headquarters in the next few days regarding the expansion of our flagship custom apparel company.  We’re going to aggressively go after a new market that has seen its primary players devastated by the credit crisis and, like any good American, we are going to use the situation to [...]

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