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Archive for April, 2010

Max Kalehoff on Social Media Advertising, Blogging & the Future of Paid Search

One of the most insightful voices in the online marketing industry when it comes to advertising is Max Kalehoff of Clickable. I was introduced to Max at a Search Insider Summit conference several years ago with very high regard by David Berkowitz, another intelligent voice in the industry, so I knew immediately he was someone to [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Lee Odden - April 14, 2010 at 10:18 am

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Kunin on Killing Passivity

"One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection." Madeleine Kunin (1933 - ) Swiss-American diplomat and politician

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The Nonsense of “NO” and 3 Reasons You Need to Own a Paddle Boat Factory.

Please stop telling me your ridiculous fairy-tale rhymes about how “yes is the new no”… No means “No.”  It means “no way”…  It means “you lost”…  It means that you have “wasted your time”… It never means “yes”. I am not sure why there is so much cognitive dissonance about this issue.  Does our willfully paralytic mental funk [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Dan Waldschmidt - April 13, 2010 at 11:11 pm

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Business Groups, Obama Administration Spar Over Corporate Governance

A dozen business groups are urging lawmakers to vote down corporate governance changes included in the Senate financial regulation bill, one day after an Obama administration official threw his weight behind the measure.

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Dallas Fed Backed Discount-Rate Increase

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas was in favor of raising the rate charged to banks on emergency loans last month, but it found little support from others in the U.S. central bank.

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Economists React: Jump in Imports Outpaces Export Gain

Economists and others weigh in on the expansion in the U.S. trade deficit.

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Capital-Control Confusion at the IMF

In February, the International Monetary Fund, which had long opposed controls on capital inflows, published a surprising paper that reversed course. Today, the IMF came close to changing its mind again.

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Marron to Become Director of Tax Policy Center

Donald Marron, who worked in the George W. Bush White House, will become the director of the Tax Policy Center, an eight-year-old joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution think tanks that produces widely used analysis of tax trends, data and policy options.

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Secondary Sources: Recession Dating, Recovery Risks, Cap and Trade

A roundup of economic news from around the Web.

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Geithner Pushes Lawmakers on Financial Rules

The Obama administration is intensifying its push on new financial rules, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner penned an editorial in the Washington Post Tuesday to try and drive home his argument.

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