Rachael Ray, host of the second highest rated daytime show behind Oprah with an average daily audience of 2.6 million people, discovered KIND bars and passionately praised them: These are DE-LI-CIOUS… …Yum. They are sooo good… …And they are delicious and very nutritious. – Rachael Ray
Robert Frank provides an elegantly simple explanation of the individual and collective behaviors & motivations that cause asset bubbles, and the means to prevent them. October 5, 2008 Economic View Pursuit of an Edge, in Steroids or Stocks By ROBERT H. FRANK ASSET bubbles like the one that caused the current economic crisis have long [...]
Ben Stein has a good article pointing out the dangers of following Treasury Secretary Paulson’s unfettered lead in bailing out his former employees and peers. September 28, 2008 Everybody’s Business In Financial Food Chains, Little Guys Can’t Win By BEN STEIN IMAGINE, if you will, that a man who had much to do with creating [...]
Brad Stone wrote an interesting article that speaks to societal differentiation between success from building something and risking your own skin to achieve it, vs. enrichment from financial engineering risking other peoples’ money. September 28, 2008 How We Value the Super-Rich By BRAD STONE San Francisco — Americans, as unfolding economic events remind us, are [...]
When Sir Paul McCartney performed a historic concert in Israel earlier this week, he wore the OneVoice symbol on his lapel – as did every member of his band. How did this come about? When we learned that McCartney was headed to the Holy Land, our team in OneVoice Europe, led by Sayyeda Salam, took [...]
In contrast to Coke’s advertising trying to say that Coke is all-natural (!), Pepsi has focused its product development and advertising messages separately promoting lines that are "FUN" (as above) and lines that are "Healthy." Of course the goal should be to create healthy and fun lines, but at least where fun is what you’ve [...]
News gathering and the media world did not change much for decades – till the internet started transforming them. One of the disadvantages of the old media model is that to get greater revenues through greater circulation, media has favored conflict – blood, controversy, negative news in short. Positive news, even if truly newsworthy are [...]
For a newspaper with editorials as sophisticated and generally on target at least as free markets economics is concerned, it was surprising to read an editorial about "speculators" with such fallacies in logic as the one here. Amidst all the finger pointing against speculators, the Wall Street Journal regularly asserts that speculators do not have [...]
Here’s an interesting article about mistakes to avoid when trying to teach children to eat healthful foods… September 15, 2008 6 Food Mistakes Parents Make , NYT By TARA PARKER-POPE HARRIET WOROBEY, a childhood nutrition instructor, knows firsthand that children can be picky eaters, but even she was surprised by a preschooler last year who [...]