Pitfalls of a Branded Economic Culture
Brand names have always been important. For years, a good brand can mean everything from quality and reliability to status and social cache. But in the last twenty five years or so brand names have evolved into “branding” as a cultural and marketing phenomenon. Without proper branding, products and services can either fall by [...]
CSI Is Just Another TV Show In Los Angeles
The public sure loves its true crime stories. The public also loves television shows that approximate true crime, like CSI, which most know stands for Crime Scene Investigation. The CBS Television Network programs CSI in a number of cities. The cities range from New York, Las Vegas, Miami, but not Los Angeles.
The show is produced [...]
Financial Meltdown Remedy–Stashing Your Cash in the Home Safe
Selling Safes
As the financial crisis worsens more people are taking their money out of banks and buying home safes. They feel their valuables are better protected when it is closer to hearth and home than it is in a bank that could fail at any minute. They are stashing gold, jewelry and cash. According to [...]
Is Fannie Mae to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
What I find in so many articles about the financial mess we are in is the greatest focus is on Fannie Mae. While no doubt Fannie Mae had much to do with the debacle we are now facing, there are multiple lenders at multiple banks who when freed of such elements as oversight and regulation [...]
The Terrorists on Wall Street
Once again terrorists have visited Wall Street. This time they did not attack with hijacked airliners, crashing into the iconic symbols of American finance and commerce. This time it wasn’t even the fanatical zealots from the Middle East but instead our own home grown variety of terrorists. Most were American born, indoctrinated [...]