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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Are Pizza and Soda Elastic?
March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Politics, Science
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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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