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Are Pizza and Soda Elastic?

March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Politics, Science

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/09/are-pizza-and-soda-price-elastic/’,size:‘large’} A team from Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina at Chapel Hill seems to think so:
U.S. researchers esti­mate that an 18 per­cent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calo­rie intake enough to lower their aver­age weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing […]

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Book Review: “Inbound Marketing”

March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Business, Culture, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Technology, The Boston Globe, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/book-review-inbound-marketing/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — If you build it, they will come. And by “it,” the authors of “Inbound Mar­ket­ing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs” mean a qual­ity online-presence sup­ported by effec­tive Internet-marketing.
In the olden days of mar­ket­ing — say, before 2000 — most mar­keters and public-relations pro­fes­sion­als used […]

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Types of Bosses

March 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/types-of-bosses/’,size:‘large’} As I wrote in a prior post, I have had extremely hor­ri­ble bosses in the United States, Europe, and Israel. Now that I own a con­sult­ing busi­ness and have to deal with Excel spread­sheets, pay­rolls, and finan­cial analy­ses, I can see the other side of the coin.
There are many articles […]

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New Economics Post

March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Britain, Business, Economics, Europe, Finance, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/07/new-economics-post-2/’,size:‘large’} I just pub­lished a new post on the Return of the Great Depres­sion blog: “The EU’s Sov­er­eign Debt Crisis.”

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Speak Hebrew, Not Yiddish

March 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Britain, Business, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/speak-hebrew-not-yiddish/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When­ever I hear Amer­i­can or Euro­pean Jews speak­ing Ashke­nazi Hebrew on the bus or in syn­a­gogue, I go nuts. And I shake my head at the grow­ing pop­u­lar­ity and revival of Yid­dish among some West­ern Jews:
Although no one knows exactly how many Yid­dish speak­ers there are […]

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New Economics Post

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Immigration, Law, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/04/new-economics-post/’,size:‘large’} I’ve pub­lished a new post at the Return of the Great Depres­sion blog on how the grow­ing eco­nomic cri­sis in the Euro­pean Union may frac­ture the nascent sense of continental unity.

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Marriage — Brain or Heart?

March 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Egypt, Feminism, India, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/marriage-brain-or-heart/’,size:‘large’} Ninth in an ongo­ing series of essays
BANGALORE, India — While I was trav­el­ing to the Sil­i­con Val­ley of the East in Decem­ber 2006 with my Suf­folk Uni­ver­sity M.B.A. class in Boston to study busi­ness there for a week, I popped into a local tourist trap to look at some […]

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Marketing Mossad

March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Culture, Israel, Law, Marketing, Politics, The Middle East, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/02/marketing-mossad/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — I just received an e-mail adver­tise­ment from the Jerusalem Post con­tain­ing this sub­ject line: “Sup­port the Mossad! Exclu­sive T-shirts Offers!” (The gram­mar mis­take was there as well.) Only $12.
Add this to my “Only in Israel” file. I can only pre­sume it’s a response to the con­tro­ver­sial assas­si­na­tion of […]

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New Economics Blog

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Israel, Personal, Politics, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/01/new-economics-blog/’,size:‘large’} I am now a co-blogger on Euro­pean and Mid­dle East eco­nom­ics at the web­site in sup­port of “The Return of the Great Depres­sion” by lib­er­tar­ian, Austrian-school econ­o­mist and polit­i­cal pun­dit Vox Day (blog, col­umn archive).
Of course, I have com­plete free­dom to write what I want, so I encour­age my […]

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Journalism is a Business

February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Humor, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Personal, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/28/journalism-is-a-business/’,size:‘large’} Media Mat­ters for Amer­ica, a lib­eral, media-watchdog orga­ni­za­tion, reflects on how Fox News cov­ered the one-year anniver­sary of the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act:
On the one-year anniver­sary of the Amer­i­can Recov­ery and Rein­vest­ment Act, Fox & Friends pur­ported to ana­lyze the results of the bill […]

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Stratfor’s Top Predictions for the “2010s”

February 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, China, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Russia

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/stratfors-top-predictions-for-the-next-decade-china-collapse-global-labor-shortages-new-american-dominance/’,size:‘large’} Sam’s always pre­dict­ing gloom and doom for the US econ­omy (often while mys­te­ri­ously tout­ing that of Israel).  So, I thought I’d share STRATFOR’S TOP PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT DECADE: China Col­lapse, Global Labor Short­ages, New Amer­i­can Dom­i­nance.
Indeed, the US does face some real issues (not actu­ally men­tioned by Business […]

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Advertising or Porn?

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Europe, Journalism, Marketing, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/advertising-or-porn/’,size:‘large’} A new French adver­tise­ment aimed at stop­ping teenagers from smok­ing is draw­ing some con­tro­ver­sial mar­ket­ing buzz:
A new French anti­smok­ing adver­tise­ment aimed at the young that plays off a porno­graphic stereo­type has got­ten more atten­tion than even its cre­ators intended, and crit­ics sug­gest that it offends com­mon decency […]

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Israeli Stupidity

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Finance, Israel, Law, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/israeli-stupidity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — In prior posts, I dis­cussed the frus­tra­tions of deal­ing the bureau­cracy in Israeli cus­tomer-ser­vice. Now, Jonathan Degani, a for­mer MBA class­mate and col­league of mine, pro­vides some sim­i­lar — and, unfor­tu­nately, use­ful — infor­ma­tion:
If you worked more than one job in the past seven years then […]

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Student-Loan Articles

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Education, Finance, Journalism, Law, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/23/student-loan-articles/’,size:‘large’} In a prior post, I ana­lyzed the causes and con­se­quences of student-loan debt among America’s young peo­ple. Now, the Huff­in­g­ton Post has unveiled a new, col­lege sec­tion and intro­duced it with a story on stu­dent loans and another on student-loan abuse.
Col­lege grad­u­ates in 2008 car­ried an aver­age student-loan debt […]

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Another Housing-Bust

February 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Health, Law, Politics

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/23/another-housing-bust-2/’,size:‘large’} Don’t let the GDP growth of 5.7 per­cent in the last quar­ter of 2009 fool you even though the sta­tis­tic means that the reces­sion is offi­cially over. (A reces­sion is two con­sec­u­tive quar­ters of neg­a­tive eco­nomic growth.) Besides, gov­ern­ment sta­tis­tics may be mis­lead­ing — or even wrong — as […]

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