- Calculated Risk: Fed Fears Long Recession - The Fed projects GDP to decline in 2009 "as a whole", and unemployment to "rise significantly into 2010". The Fed also expects disinflationary pressures to continue into 2010.
- air_force_blog_char.jpg (JPEG Image, 735×1106 pixels) - This flowchart highlights the blog reading decision making tree for the Air Force. I'd say it's actually quite good, assuming their intentions include being informative and not distributing solely propaganda.
- Google Trends: sears | closing | kmart - I've had a lot of search queries hitting my site for "sears store closing" referencing the "store closing list post". Based on the Google Trends chart, it's an annual occurrence, right after Christmas.
Daily Links for January 7th
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Daily Links for January 2nd
January 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
- Pa. open-records law takes effect today | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/01/2009 - The legislation will free Pennsylvania from having one of the worst records in the nation - some believe it was the worst - in providing access to government documents. In essence, it declares that all state, county and local government records are public unless specifically exempted. It is a vast change from the state's previous Right to Know Act, written in 1957, which had a very narrow definition of what constituted a public record.
- 9 Ways to Visualize Consumer Spending | FlowingData -
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Daily Links for December 22nd through December 31st
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments
- Fimoculous.com - misc - 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 - Maybe half of the blogs listed below are new, and the other half deserve attention for having reinvented the medium in some way. Consensus is an impossible task in a world this diverse, but that shouldn't stop us from pointing out excellence when we see it. So here they are, the most notable blogs of the past year[.]
- Inside the Playbook - The New York Times -
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Daily Links for December 20th
December 21st, 2008 · No Comments
- GOOD » A Glimpse at the Future of Journalism» - It’s no secret that the industry’s future is bleak, and death is always a worthy story. But you seldom read about ideas for completely overhauling the industry. I don’t know why—music and cars get that treatment all the time. Perhaps it’s too much to ask journalists to prescribe their own cure—like asking a surgeon to perform a heart transplant on herself. Yet the ideas do exist.
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Daily Links for December 18th
December 19th, 2008 · No Comments
- RMI’s Oil Imports Map - RMI MOVE -
- The Great Disruption - Scott Anthony - Why the Great Disruption? In the Great Depression, demand, output and wages declined across the board. Today's times are different. It isn't just that demand is sagging. It's that change is ripping through markets at unprecedented pace. Competitive advantage that took decades to build disappears seemingly overnight.
- “Death Map”: Where Americans Are Most Likely To Die (IMAGES) - And while intense hurricanes and tornadoes steal headlines for their intense winds and overall destruction, the new map shows what other previous studies have found, that everyday hazards, such as severe winter and summer weather, and heat account for the majority of natural hazard deaths in the United States.
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Daily Links for December 17th
December 17th, 2008 · No Comments
- Black September | The Big Picture - September 2008 marked the beginning…
- Robert Reich’s Blog: And Now Deflation - The good news is that all this price cutting is helping average people at a time when wages and benefits, and jobs, are also being cut. The bad news is it's also cutting deep into producer profits, causing them to cut even more jobs and wages. The big danger is it may cause some consumers to delay purchases, thinking they can get a better deal when prices drop further. That's a self-fulfilling prophesy. If more and more consumers take this view, sellers will have to reduce prices further to get them to buy now. That may sound good until you realize it means more layoffs, and more cuts in wages and benefits.
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Daily Links for December 13th
December 14th, 2008 · No Comments
- Schumpeter on Political Parties (Harper’s Magazine) - A party is a group whose members propose to act in concert in the competitive struggle for political power. If that were not so it would be impossible for different parties to adopt exactly or almost exactly the same programme. Yet this happens as everyone knows. Party and machine politicians are simply the response to the fact that the electoral mass is incapable of action other than a stampede, and they constitute an attempt to regulate political competition exactly similar to the corresponding practices of a trade association. The psychotechnics of party management and party advertising, slogans and marching tunes, are not accessories. They are of the essence of politics. So is the political boss.
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Daily Links for December 11th
December 12th, 2008 · No Comments
- Retailer Survival Tips - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog - The holidays are going to stink. But I'm hopeful that the crisis will be cathartic for retailers, and that the smart ones will embark in 2009 on the true journeys of reinvention that, up to now, they've barely even recognized, let alone begun.
- Philadelphia Will Do » Give This The Pulitzer - Does it get any better than these courtroom sketches of Rod Blagojevich? Why yes, yes it does, in the form of a Chicago Sun-Times story headlined, “Is Blago’s hair a sign of sickness?
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