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Thinking Our Way Into A Depression

Clipart of bills and coins
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There are dozens of media trade publications and hundreds (thousands?) of blogs writing about the media business.  For the past six months, nearly all of them have adopted this “world is coming to an end” mentality that seems to leave little choice for anyone selling online media but to drink heavily and abandon all hope of making your numbers. Continue reading

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Thriller

An Aston Martin DB5 as seen in Goldfinger.

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I love a good thriller.  There is something about the Bond movies, the Bourne books, and others of that ilk that make us fearful yet happy all at the same time.  Inevitably, these books and movies are about a serious situation that threatens a large number of people and involves a lot of money.  The really scary thing is that we had a real one of these recently and it’s going to make a terrific piece even though no one gets shot. Continue reading

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Looping

My friend and I were standing in the yard the other day when he said something to me that resonated.  “I think we’ve both seen the country and the world go through some bad times before,” he said, “but it’s never felt like this.”  That, of course, got me wondering how our grandparents felt (great grandparents for you younger types) on the eve of the Great Depression.  What are the lessons from then that we can apply today? Continue reading

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