Posts Tagged: industry


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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 10th through October 12th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • How Rewards Can Backfire and Reduce Motivation | PsyBlog – Yet psychologists have long known that rewards are overrated. The carrot, of carrot-and-stick fame, is not as effective as we've been led to believe. Rewards work under some circumstances but sometimes they backfire. Spectacularly.

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Sep 09

Daily Links for September 3rd

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).


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May 09

Daily Links for May 21st


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Feb 09

Daily Links for February 3rd

  • The Financial Services Fact Book 2009 – The Financial Services Fact Book 2009, Insurance Information Institute, The Financial Services Roundtable: "The 2009 edition includes a host of new material to shed light on this challenging environment
  • Congress SpaceBook and Hillary Clinton’s FOAF Entry – Congress Facebook is a new mashup combining 11 different web APIs that wants “to make Congress more accountable and transparent”. The app tracks a lot of data for each member: voting records, FEC reports, Campaign Finance summary, their opinions on the issues, and even their state’s federal spending reports. The design of the site is basic, but the it’s data rich.

12
Jan 09

What’s not good for General Motors is not good for the country, either.

I strongly feel that the events playing out in the automobile industry are proxy for what is going on (and will go on) in the greater economy.  This is not good.

By examining the causes, effects, and outcomes regarding automobiles, we see a landscape that in no way resembles the old order.   Companies, brands, dealers, suppliers, consumer preferences, buying habits, and entire American institutions will be unrecognizable.

We are at an interregenum across our entire society.  The old order is dead, and the new order has yet to be established.  If you think this is solely a domestic (Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors) problem, you are seriously mistaken.


10
Dec 08

Daily Links for December 9th

  • GOOD » Books Are the New Cars» – Another day, another imploding industry…
  • Economist’s View: “Capitalist Fools” – Was there any single decision which, had it been reversed, would have changed the course of history? … The truth is most of the individual mistakes boil down to just one: a belief that markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal. … The embrace by America—and much of the rest of the world—of this flawed economic philosophy made it inevitable that we would eventually arrive at the place we are today.

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Dec 08

Daily Links for December 8th


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Nov 08

Daily Links for November 21st

  • Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one. – The Boston Globe – Today, however, whatever a depression would look like, that's not it. We are separated from the 1930s by decades of profound economic, technological, and political change, and a modern landscape of scarcity would reflect that. What, then, would we see instead? And how would we even know a depression had started? It's not a topic that professional observers of the economy study much. And there's no single answer, because there's no one way a depression might unfold. But it's nonetheless an important question to consider – there's no way to make informed decisions about the present without understanding, in some detail, the worst-case scenario about the future.

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Nov 08

Daily Links for November 19th

  • A Sea of Unwanted Imports – NYTimes.com – And for the first time, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Nissan have each asked to lease space from the port for these orphan vehicles. They are turning dozens of acres of the nation’s second-largest container port into a parking lot, creating a vivid picture of a paralyzed auto business and an economy in peril.
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