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Super Bowl Ad Agency Fumble

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Super Bowl Ad Agency Fumble Monday February 12, 2023. Reprint During my corporate career, I was proud to see our firms Super Bowl commercials. I may not have always revered the final product but understood the intent and accepted the financial price tag as worth public exposure. Intuitively, I respected the expertise of our adverting […]

Do you Care What People Think?

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Remember this saying, “when you are in your 20’s, everyone is thinking about you; when you are in your 40’s you don’t give a damn that people are thinking about you; when you are in your 60’s you realize that no one has been thinking about you at all.”   Well, I am in my 60’s […]

Ordinary Americans Duped

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The business boom of the 1920s had increased worker productivity by about 43%, but wages did not rise. Those profits, along with tax cuts and stock market dividends, meant that wealth moved upward and in 1929, 5% of the population received one third of the nation’s income. In 1932, voters turned for Democratic president Franklin […]