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The Stimulus “Buy American” Clause

Posted in business strategy, economics, finance, politics, taxes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Reproduced with permission from a private e-mail from Mahesh Johari Some quick commentary only today.  The stimulus bill that just passed the House contains a “Buy American” clause, which forces materials purchased using funds from the stimulus package to come from American manufacturers. Intuitively, this sounds both logical and appealing.  If we’re spending our taxpayer [...]

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Post Inauguration Work

Posted in politics, tagged , , , on January 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »

When the inauguration is over will the work really begin? It is a strange thing to me that while we sink trillions of taxpayer dollars into bailouts and rail against AIG (and others) for spending frivolously, we then throw one of the biggest inaugurations ever.  Who pays for that? What about the loss of productivity [...]

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Obama and Rick Warren – Separation of Church and State, Anyone???

Posted in politics, religion, tagged , , , on December 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »

So now we’re going to have a month of debate about Rick Warren and what he stands for. Warren has been described as the next Billy Graham, an evangelical leader with a moderate reputation and mass-market appeal — although instead of massive open-air rallies and an out-sized television presence, Warren focused on forging partnerships with [...]

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ABCnews & Facebook Debates: A Rare Convergence in Media That Works!

Posted in politics, vertical media, tagged , , , , , , on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

37,000 participants on Facebook during the live debates last night. live polling live blogging email direct to campaign advisors immediate reactions raw videos from the event videos from the location The debates were lively and alive.  Interactive and immersive.  Ok, ok, so some of the political banter during the debate itself was the same ol’ schtick but this time we get to tell [...]

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