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Marketing Through the Recession: Ten Lessons from 2009

Jenny Darroch | Posted 12.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Lessons From 2009, Great Depression, Marketing Strategies, Performance Measurement, Customers, Recession, Turbulent Times, Brands, Business News
Jenny Darroch

Here is a list of 10 lessons that I believe define good marketing practice during the turbulent times we experienced through 2009.

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Robert Shiller: Market Bubbles Part Of Human Psychology, Won't Be Eradicated

newsweek.com | Robert Shiller | Posted 12.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Great Depression, Economic Bubble, Free Market Capitalism, Market Bubbles, Economy, Efficient Markets Theory, Case-Shiller Index, Bubble Economy, Capitalism, Robert Shiller, Housing Bubble, Business News

When it comes to market bubbles and how they are created, very little, if anything, has changed. This is because human psychology has not changed. Mas...

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The New Decade: Billionaire Bailouts or Progressive Resurgence?

Les Leopold | Posted 12.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Unemployment, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Green Energy, Wall Street Bonuses, Tea Party, Recession, Great Depression, Business News
Les Leopold

Too-big to fail is now our official policy. Our leaders talk of reining the banks in, but talk is cheap and campaign contributions are always welcomed.

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The Unwise Men's Gifts to Obama

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Wall Street, Economic Royalists, Which Side Are You On, Christmas, Financial Crisis, Franklin Roosevelt, 1936 Election, Barack Obama, Usury, Great Depression, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

'Tis the season for gift giving, and the President of the United States is in need of presents. Barack Obama could use some gifts to cheer him up and get his presidency back on track.

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2009 Economic Year in Review: How Did We Get Here?

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 12.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Gdp, Inflation, Lehman Brothers, Great Recession, Economy, Economic Crisis, Great Depression, Business News
Hale

Because we are approaching the end of the year, it is appropriate to take a look back at the economy for the last year to see how we're doing.

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"The Depression of 1933"?? -- Is a Depression a Moveable Famine?

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Paul Solmon, John Maynard Keynes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pbs Newshour, Russ Roberts, Great Recession, Friedrich Hayek, Oral Roberts, Depression of 1933, Market God, Great Depression, Marketism, Business News
Robert S. McElvaine

The Free Market faithful have rewritten a great deal of history. But their most recent claim that Franklin Roosevelt started the Great Depression? That's just ludicrous.

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McCain, Cantwell Team Up To Renew Glass-Steagal Act, Depression-Era Banking Law

Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Stock Market Crash, Wall Street, Commercial Banks, Tim Geithner, Maria Cantwell, Banks, Glass-Steagall Act, Arthur Levitt Jr., Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Volcker, Recession, Great Depression, Politics News

Senators John McCain and Maria Cantwell are joining forces to reinstate the Depression-era Glass-Steagal Act of 1933, which separated commercial banki...

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Feminomics: Breaking New Ground - Women and the New Deal

David Woolner | Posted 12.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Frances-Perkins, Josephine Roche, Wpa, New Deal 2.0, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Great Depression, Business News
David Woolner

Looking back more than 70 years, we can see that the precedent for making sure that working women benefit from such federal programs as unemployment insurance came from the New Deal.

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How to Create New Jobs: The CCC Reimagined

David Becker | Posted 12.11.2009 | Business

Read More: College Students, Green Collar Jobs, Unemployment, Green Jobs, Wpa, Farmers, Jobs, Small Farmers, Business, Great Depression, Business News
David Becker

In rural America, slow access to the Internet can be the norm, and the economic impact is significant. This is where the new CCC, the Civilian Connectivity Corp, could ride to the rescue.

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Some Jobs Taxpayers Don't Need to Buy

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Beatles, John Lennon, Jobs Summit, Paul McCartney, Works Progress Administration, Credit Default Swaps, Cooper Tire, Paul Krugman, Newpage, Economic Policy Institute, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. International Trade Commission, Fdr, Great Depression, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

A second stimulus is completely reasonable at a time when there are six unemployed Americans for every job opening and when it takes six months on average for an unemployed worker to find a job.

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Deborah Davis' Latest Triumph!: Gilded, How Newport Became America's Richest Resort

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 12.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Fifth Avenue, Jack Astor, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Eileen Gillespie, Titanic, Ellen Tuck French, Mrs. James Laurens Van Allen, Newport Casino, Bergdorf Goodman, Vanderbilt Mansion, Tuxedo-Park, Eileen Slocum, Vincent Astor, Mrs. Astor, Newport, Hotel Pierre, Temple Emanu-El, Mrs. William Watts Sherman, The Empress Eugenie, Napoleon III, Nadine and Noreen Stonor, Mrs. Styvasant Fish, Lady Camoys, Great Depression, Books News
Michael Henry Adams

Having met some of the same challenging residents she has, examining Deborah Davis' breathless, bright and entertaining new book, Gilded, How Newport ...

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Paul Krugman: Germany's Jobs, Unemployment Miracle Can Teach US

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Larry Summers, Economy, Jobs Created, Jobs, Obama, Policy, Unemployment Rate, Deficit, White House, Unemployment, Germany, Brownshirts, New Jobs, Gdp Policy, Jobs Policy, Us Unemployment, New Deal, Works Progress Administration, Democrats, Stimulus, Recession, Unemployment Numbers, Great Depression, Labor, Labor Market, Gdp, Glenn Beck, Job Creation, Jobs Lost, Republicans, Business News

Germany's jobs miracle hasn't received much attention in this country -- but it's real, it's striking, and it raises serious questions about whether t...

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The Recession, President Obama and The Future. Do ideas matter?

Alan Miller | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justin Fox, Nouriel Roubini, Economy, President Obama, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Recession, US Economy, Financial Meltdown, Bruce Bartlett, The Future, Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, Global Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Great Depression, Politics News
Alan Miller

Recently, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, penned an article bemoaning the greed of bankers and hatred of politicians. Indeed, it has been a wid...

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New York Times Blames Workers for Unemployment?

Les Leopold | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Bailout, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Wall Street Bonuses, Great Depression, Business News
Les Leopold

A column in the Business section was about how the American worker is overpaid. They claim that if workers don't take cuts, these "overpaid" working stiffs will be the cause of another Great Depression.

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Of Billionaires, Bailouts and Bonuses

Les Leopold | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Financial Crisis, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street Crisis, Great Depression, Bailouts, Business News
Les Leopold

Let's weigh the pros and cons of the record bonuses going to Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley (and many others) during the worst economic crash since 1929.

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In Search of Men of Principle

Louise Mirrer | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Civil War, New York Draft Riots, Terrorism, Abraham Lincoln, Nazism, Neil Simon, Brighton Beach Memoirs, John Brown, Great Depression, Triumph, New York News
Louise Mirrer

Had Eugene and Stanley of Brighton Beach Memoirs been living in New York during the Civil War years, they might not have thought so highly of Abraham Lincoln's principles.

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Five Myths the Recession Taught Us

James Altucher | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Saving Money, Stocks, Inflation, Recession, Economy, Great Depression, Business News
James Altucher

During the course of the past few months, several myths came to bear on the struggling economy that will play out through 2010 to create enormous opportunities in the market and the economy.

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One Year After Election Day: The Verdict on Obama

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bill Clinto, George H.W. Bush, One Year Later, George W. Bush, President Obama, Jimmy Carter, Economic Recovery, Great Depression, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Has President Obama done a good job in office, or is he destined to suffer the same fate of Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush, as unmemorable, ineffective one-term chief executives?

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Martians in New Jersey: Remembering the War of the Worlds

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Aliens, Hysteria, Anniversary, Hoax, Fake-News, War, Panic, Radio, Great Depression, Halloween, Orson Welles, New Jersey, New York News
Michael Kaplan

Orson Welles was a talented director, and, at the age of 22, a very naughty boy.

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Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem

Sen. Maria Cantwell | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Crisis, Congress, Wall Street, Wall Street Casino, Maria Cantwell, Great Depression, Politics News
Sen. Maria Cantwell

Our nation's financial sector can act as a great force for job creation and production. We should not stand by and let their dimly lit casino bring us all down once again.

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Eighty Years After Black Tuesday

Jenny Darroch | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Behavior, Wedding Anniversary, Consumer Spending, Economic Recession, Great Depression, Business News
Jenny Darroch

It's a shame we aren't talking about the 42nd anniversary, when the appropriate gift is improved real estate, or the 43rd year when the gift is travel or the 44th year where the gift is groceries.

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"Black Tuesday" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" at 80

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Income Distribution, Labor Unions, Black Tuesday, Tax Rates, Happy Days Are Here Again, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Socialism, Capitalism, Free-Market Economics, Barack Obama, Recession, Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis Mccain, Business News
Robert S. McElvaine

In what must rank as one of the most ironic coincidences in history, "Happy Days Are Here Again" was recorded on the day that was to be called "Black Tuesday" and become synonymous with the with the onset of the Great Depression.

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Echoes of a Distant Crash

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Black Tuesday, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Tva, Free Market Ideology, Conservative Economics, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Eighty years ago this week, an enormous sound emanated from lower Manhattan and began to spread in waves across the nation and, eventually, the world.

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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part I

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Akron, Great Depression, Charles Adams Platt, Perkins Family, East River, New York, Mrs. James K. Smith, Ohio, Noel Coward, Marta Raymond, William Lawrence Bottomley, Foreclosure, Harlem River Houses, George Perkins Raymond, Laura Schellschmidt, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

How did I, an unknown from the provinces, black and gay, first find myself at lofty River House facing the East River?

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Author Morris Dickstein Interviewed for Upcoming Creative Time Summit

Zefrey Throwell | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Revolutions-in-Public-Practice, Dancing in the Dark, Great Depression, Art, New York Public Library, New York News
Zefrey Throwell

An interview with Morris Dickstein about his new book, Dancing In the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression as well as what he plans on presenting at the Creative Time Summit.

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