I moved to the city of Lakewood, because it offered a lot of the amenities of living in the city (what with being 5 minutes away from down town) while still maintaining many suburban qualities. It reminds me of the small town I grew up in until I was 10. The neighbors are friendly, there’s […]

The New York Times has an article today about how the business decisions of Fortune 500 execs are often secretly influenced by Ayn Rand. Funny this article should come up, because I was recently thinking about how relevant her work is in the advertising world. I was watching an episode of Mad Men the other […]

Today the US Dollar and the Canadian Dollar are worth exactly the same. Crap. I wonder if Canadians are going to be pissed that all their books still cost $10 more?

How banks rip off college students and the government, from Slate yesterday. This reaffirms my believe that student loans are a huge racket and not designed to help students, but to send them spiraling into years of debt.

Freakonomics on the sad state of civil employees’ pay. It’s absurd that we as a culture will pay someone a million dollars to hit a ball with a stick, but the people who keep us safe, and the people who shape our children in their formative years make so little.

An article discussing corporate lobbying, and Jones Soda’s switch from high-fructose corn syrup to cane sugar.
With free competition, companies best able to satisfy consumer demand are the ones that expand production and stay in business; the consumer is king.
When a government guarantees profits to those large corporations with powerful lobbies, the market loses its […]

Wild Oats / Whole Foods merger finally approved. Perhaps the government had a look at At&t recently and rethought their ideas on natural food stores and monopolies. I hope all the Wild Oats don’t become Whole Foods. In addition to liking Wild Oats better all around, I don’t know where I’d get Uncle Eddie’s […]

Marketers now have statistical data to prove what I could’ve told you all along.
Some 88% of gay men and 91% of lesbians claim that a brand’s sponsorship or support of LGBT events favorably influences their buying decisions, according to a study released today from Community Marketing, Inc., San Francisco. The study also found that […]