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The Death of Capitalism

Posted on June 10, 2009
Professor Sidney Winter, Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management , Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has a number of...

Winner's Curse? Seth Godin on Auctions

Posted on June 09, 2009
Image via WikipediaSeth Godin has wondered if the the winner of auctions usually bid irrationally high or too much. "The only thing worse than losing a big-time auction is winning one. If you win, you feel like a chump because everyone else in the world dropped out before you...

Why Oprah Tolerates Quacks

Posted on June 09, 2009
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeWeston Kosova and Pat Wingert wrote an interesting piece in Newsweek about Oprah Winfrey and the frauds that appear on her show.  Winfrey's inability to detect nonsense or bullshit is a bit of a mystery."Some of what Oprah promotes isn't good, and a lot of the advice her guests dispense on the show is just bad...

How to Sell Good News

Posted on June 09, 2009

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How to Sell Good News

Posted on June 09, 2009

Why Oprah Tolerates Quacks

Posted on June 09, 2009
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeWeston Kosova and Pat Wingert wrote an interesting piece in Newsweek about Oprah Winfrey and the frauds that appear on...

When Magical Thinking Works - It's Not a Secret

Posted on June 09, 2009
In 1959, Evon Z. Vogt and Ray Hyman wrote "Water Witching". It was a fascinating and objective review of the practice of water witching...

Richard Posner versus Erving Goffman

Posted on June 08, 2009
Image via WikipediaRichard Posner has a blog at The Atlantic Monthly, in which he updates, responds to, and refines his ideas about the current financial crisis. The blog is a continuing update to the ideas he wrote about in his book A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression Posner believes that the US regulators are deserving of more criticism, and I disagreed with his anaylsis -stemming from a different view about the proper role of the regulator of financial products...

Richard Posner versus Erving Goffman

Posted on June 08, 2009
Image via WikipediaRichard Posner has a blog at The Atlantic Monthly, in which he updates, responds to, and refines his ideas about the current financial...

Great New Slide Share Option

Posted on June 07, 2009
| View | Upload your own This is going to make a lot of those orphan slide shows disappear - either add your voice or you won't be heard.

Great New Slide Share Option

Posted on June 07, 2009
| View | Upload your own This is going to make a lot of those orphan slide shows disappear - either add your voice...

Is Home Staging a Guaranteed Lucrative Field of Opportunity?

Posted on June 05, 2009
Image via WikipediaZac Bissonette wonders about Haverhill Home Staging and its guaranteed placement for people who complete their training course."Haverhill Home Staging says it's "North America's largest and fastest growing Home Staging Company." The point is debatable, but Haverhill is certainly North America's most prominent cable advertiser in home-staging: the art and science of sprucing homes to prepare them for sale...

A Voice from the Past

Posted on June 05, 2009
Image via WikipediaOver 2 years ago, Greg Newton, sadly deceased, was already following Mozilo and his antics at Countrywide Financial.Angelo Mozilo, chairman and chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial Corp. (CFC), showed up on BuffoonVision yesterday, talking about unnecessary liquidity crises and otherwise desperately spinning the need for an urgent Fed rate cut...

Is Home Staging a Guaranteed Lucrative Field of Opportunity?

Posted on June 05, 2009
Image via WikipediaZac Bissonette wonders about Haverhill Home Staging and its guaranteed placement for people who complete their training course."Haverhill Home Staging says it's "North...

A Voice from the Past

Posted on June 05, 2009
Image via WikipediaOver 2 years ago, Greg Newton, sadly deceased, was already following Mozilo and his antics at Countrywide Financial.Angelo Mozilo, chairman and chief executive...

AdSurfDaily RICO Case

Posted on June 04, 2009
Image via WikipediaPatrick Petty, blogging here, has done an excellent job of following the AdSense Ponzi case through the court documents.'In a flurry of activity in the racketeering lawsuit against ASD President Andy Bowdoin, ASD attorney Robert Garner and Golden Panda Ad Builder President Clarence Busby, the plaintiffs in the case have formally added two attorneys and filed a motion for more time to respond to Garner's motion to be dismissed as a defendant...

Are Stupid Franchisor Marketers Made or Born?

Posted on June 04, 2009
Funny video, hat tip to the Copywriting Maven, and B2B Macro Mind for this video on marketing.

AdSurfDaily RICO Case

Posted on June 04, 2009
Image via WikipediaPatrick Petty, blogging here, has done an excellent job of following the AdSense Ponzi case through the court documents.'In a flurry of activity...

How We Justify Foolish Acts and Bad Decisions

Posted on June 03, 2009
Cover via AmazonAll of us would like to make less errors, learn from the past, and reduce mistakes. But, we have a built in problem - when things go wrong, we blame ourselves only as a last resort.Patri Friedman makes the point:Errors are valuable training instances, and our bias against accepting blame reduces the number available...

What can IndFA's Learn from Harvard?

Posted on June 02, 2009
We have all heard the term "win win", but what does it really mean? Bob Mnookin talks about the Program on Negotiation, an executive training program at Harvard. "When you're mired in a dispute, it's natural to focus on differences. But negotiation experts at Harvard University suggest looking for hidden similarities instead...

Thinking Economists

Posted on June 02, 2009
Greg Mankiw, an economist at Harvard, answers the following question from David Brooks:"I was having dinner with a journalist last night and he mentioned that he was finding that many of his best sources on the crisis teach at B schools, not Econ Departments...

Glamourizing Economic Predators

Posted on May 27, 2009
Sam Antar makes an excellent point - "Don't glamorize economic predators". We tend to glamorize crimes of confidence and those criminals who committed them. This is one of the more difficult problems in white collar crime, we treat the victims worse than the victims of physical crimes...

Who are the United Vendors of Canada? Loonie Vend? Vendgourmet?

Posted on May 27, 2009
Image via WikipediaHere is an interesting observation about United Vendors, and a number of companies it has used marketing it's vending business opportunity.I purchased U-turn machines from United Vendors of Canada, that used to be located at www.loonievend...

Negotiations over Legal Fees

Posted on May 27, 2009
Thanks to the Copy Writing Maven for this humorous take on negotiation. While, the Maven saw vendor relations, I saw lawyer to client relations. Very funny, especially the final scene.

CRE Capital Ponzi

Posted on May 27, 2009
Image via WikipediaFrom the FBI Press Release on the CRE Capital Ponzi scheme.James Ossie 48, of Atlanta, pleaded guilty today in federal district court to a wire fraud scheme involving the operations of his foreign exchange trading firm, CRE Capital...

Threats in an Abundant World

Posted on May 21, 2009
Our national gloom is real enough, but it isn't a matter of insufficient funds. It's a matter of insufficient certainty. Americans have been perfectly happy with far less wealth than most of us have now, and we could quickly become those Americans again -- if only we knew we had to...

WARNING TO ONTARIO LAWYERS

Posted on May 13, 2009
Image via WikipediaLawPro wants Ontario lawyers to be aware of what is essentially an advance fee scam in disguise."Last week LAWPRO e-blasted 20,000 Ontario lawyers in private practice with a warning about a bad cheque fraud scam targeting lawyer trust accounts...

Are You Financially Aware?

Posted on May 13, 2009
Image via WikipediaHow much fraud can we expect to deter with increased financial literacy?I am skeptical that literacy is the root problem, and so was pleased to see that Sandra F. Braunstein, Director, Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, of the Federal Reserve agrees with me...

Children's Orchard Website

Posted on May 13, 2009
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeI have written before about Children's Orchard, a franchise system with decidedly mixed success.Now, Unhappy Franchisee reports that"Children's Orchard is a chain of franchised resale shops that buy and sell children's clothing, furniture, and toys...

When Can You Rescind Your Ontario Franchise Agreement?

Posted on May 12, 2009
Image via WikipediaOne vexing question for franchisees is when they can rescind their franchise agreement, under the Arthur Wishart Act 2009 ONCA 385 (CanLII) (Franchise Disclosure), 2000, S.O. 2000, c. 3 ("the Act"). The question calls for an interpretation of sections 6(1) and 6(2) of the Act...

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