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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Economics'
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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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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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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Steak for Stock
March 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Economics, Food
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/02/steak-for-stock/’,size:‘large’} A great gimmick, an interesting ploy, and possibly a good way to make a fortune: Steak for Stock.
I’m not sure what to think, but I have to give credit to Smith & Wollensky’s ad agency for coming up with this one.
A sign of the times, to be sure. Citibank stock […]
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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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Redundant, Oppressed Men
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Health, Israel, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics, The Middle East
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JERUSALEM — The first of a five-part British documentary on the state of men and manliness in modern, Western society:
Men and masculinity are being marginalised. Manly virtues are laughed at, even considered dysfunctional. Men are being edged out of the family, the workplace and wider society as […]
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Poverty in the Land of the Free
February 25th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Blogs From Left to Right, Economics, Food, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/25/poverty-in-the-land-of-the-free/’,size:‘large’} In a column on the Huffington Post, Leo Hindery, Jr., a former CEO, writes that 100 million people in America are at or below the official poverty line, which itself is an absurd, unrealistic measure.
I agree that poverty eradication should be a, if not the, top priority in this […]
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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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Globalization of Identity
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Japan, Language, Law, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/globalized-identity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I was a pre-teen and teenager, I took tennis lessons at Oak Hill Country Club (now closed) in Belleville, Illinois, and was later on my high school’s team for two years before my newfound passions for journalism and the Model U.N. took more of my time.
My favorite […]
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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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Reversing Stagflation
February 21st, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Economics, Finance, Israel, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/21/reversing-stagflation/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Israel is a crazy, miraculous country — and even its economy can prove the point. GDP rose at an annualized rate of 4.4 percent in the last quarter of 2009, and consumer-prices decreased by 0.7 percent in January.
I’ve never heard of such a phenomenon before. Is there […]
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