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Financial Alert

March 29th, 2008 · 8 Comments

If you are not following Paulson and the Treasury Department’s proposal for an extensive revamping of the country’s financial regulatory procedures, it may be wise to do so. You can read prelim info here in the Washington Post.
I am no financial scholar but it appears that Bush may be taking the present economic downturn as [...]

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Tags: Public Policy

Ads that Make the Teeth Itch

March 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments

What do you think makes for an effective television ad?
The bottom line for me is that the ad not promise something it does not deliver. A really excellent ad is the Geico Gekko ads that promise no more than visual and aural memorability. We watch the Gekko and grin in wonder at the way his [...]

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Tags: advertising