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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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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

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/26/redundant-oppressed-men/’,size:‘large’}
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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