Last September, a couple of days after the Lehman debacle (Geithner’s fault?), the NY Post lavished praise on Tim Geithner. Among other things, he “was Uncle Sam’s golden-boy emissary sent into the stormy center of what was then the world’s worst financial crisis — the ...

In interpreting Obama’s strange indifference to the stock market’s most recent crash, the choices are not happy ones. Either the man hasn’t a clue about what he is doing, or the market decline suits his purposes (as some have alleged). In either case it is bad news for America. The...

Dick Morris does some numbers: President Obama’s will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We’re speaking, of course, of Obama’s plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He’s not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he’s al...

Consider this WSJ lede in a piece based on administration “leaks” and transparently designed to try to calm the markets that have been laid waste by the ineptitude of the Obama administration: The Obama administration, filling in some of the blanks in its bank bailout, is considering cre...

Just what we need in this time of serious economic straits: an expensive boondoggle to solve a problem that may not exist, and might even be the exact opposite of the commonly held belief of the environmentally fashionable. NYT: within weeks of taking office, President Obama has radically shifted th...

This week, Content Matters caught up with e-marketing thought leader David Meerman Scott. David is a highly sought-after speaker and is author of the "The New Rules of Marketing and PR" and "Cashing In With Content". His newest book, World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to ...

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You may remember a post I did a while back on The Loyalty Expo - a conference and learning experience put on by Loyalty 360.  I mentioned in my post that Loyalty 360 was different in that they looked at loyalty through a wider lens that most - not purely focused on customers/consumers, but understo...

The often wrong but also entertaining Jim Cramer thinks we’ve gone back to November of last year, when things were especially gloomy in the aftermath of Lehman: Is anything out there better than it was four months ago, when the market let too-big-to-fail Lehman fail? Some would say retail is b...

Martin Wolf, an informed pessimist, describes two views of the severity of the banking problem. FT: Under the first view, the prices of a defined set of “toxic assets� have been driven below their long-run value and in some cases have become impossible to sell. The solution, many suggest, is for...