Tag Archives: The Market
Free Publicity and an Irreverent FCUK
Brilliant — French Connection is using Chatroulette as a source of free publicity. Always good to see a healthy market at work, and entrepreneurial ways to use public space: Chatroulette, the random, anonymous webcam chat room that found a huge … Continue reading
To Develop
This is to develop later, but here’s the model I keep referring to privately when I think about political affiliation: In the center there’s just a person: oneself. At some basic level, every person is a libertarian. We all want … Continue reading
Filed under Kat
Principles and Popularity
Last night I had a great conversation with perhaps my favorite sheeb in the world about how religions operate, in a business sense. Evidently the Pope recently announced that the Catholic church would no longer recognize female bishops, and that … Continue reading
Filed under Kat
Femme Mafia
I’ve been playing in girlie lit an awful lot recently; it’s subsumed a bit more of my consciousness than I like to admit. Frankly it’s a little bizarre to hear so much chatter and realize there’s still so much animosity … Continue reading
Filed under Furthering the Debate, Kat, Women
Masonomics
Lifted whole cloth from National Review’s “The Corner” (not block quoted to preserve internal quotes): What Is Masonomics? [Veronique de Rugy] While there is much debate these days about the current state of macroeconomics (among other places here and here), there is … Continue reading
Filed under Kat
Journalism Lay-offs Chill Death Row Challenges
Talk about the “seen” and the “unseen”! Death row challengers may require passionate journalists to tout their cases as much as they need lawyers to argue their pleas. When journalists (and lawyers!) are consumed w/ keeping their jobs and covering … Continue reading
The End of Craigslist Prostitution
I have to admit I’m a little sad about this post from Above the Law. Not that I’d ever partake in the darker side of Craigslist. I’m just always melancholy when the moral police step on the toes of people … Continue reading
Filed under Liberty
Argentine Bank Ad
Tolerance as a marketing strategy. I rather love it. When I lived for a short time in Argentina in 2006 I studied with some of the economists behind the post-crash market experiment. Thousands of folks in Buenos Aires came together … Continue reading
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Does “the Market” encourage practices that are unethical but not illegal?
Yelp is a customer-driven review site based on San Francisco. It’s a great source for a variety of frank opinions about which businesses (restaurants, entertainment, services, even transportation) in your area are best. Yelp is also great for traveling, to … Continue reading
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