How Would You Sell The Tea Party?

by Joshua Sharf | 5:36 pm, March 22, 2012

Reading Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw, I got to his essay, “True Colors: Hair Dye and the Hidden History of Postwar America.”  He argues that the difference between Clairol’s “Does She or Doesn’t She?” and L’Oreal’s “Because I’m Worth It,” is the difference between 1950s and 1970s feminism.  Moreover, even when the two product’s [...]

Baptism By Firewall?

by Joshua Sharf | 11:31 pm, March 11, 2012

The Times of Israel is reporting that Mormon leaders are blocking access to the names of Holocaust victims in their genealogical database.  The church has promised not to posthumously baptize these people, and the firewall is an attempt to prevent those church members who might not have gotten the word – or not have gotten it [...]

Daily Glimpse March 6, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, March 6, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height A Unified Brand – A Consistent UI That’s been my experience.  I know we’re trying to do that at Werner.  And it’s definitely affected how our teams interact. If we can agree that consumers see a brand as having one “voice,” I’d argue that the internal organization’s infrastructure [...]

Daily Glimpse March 5, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, March 5, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height The Presidential Race in Historic Context From the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.  At the CCU News 21 event on Friday, Jay Ambrose praised Ted White’s “Making of the President” series of books, in large part because of his historical perspective.  So, get some historical perspective. Derivatives and [...]

Daily Glimpse March 4, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:31 pm, March 4, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height Consequences of the Decline of the Dollar Even the Indians are noticing.  We got away with abusing our position as the world’s reserve currency in the late 60s and 70s, mostly because there weren’t any alternatives.  Our GDP was then, as it is now, about 25% of the [...]

Daily Glimpse March 3, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, March 3, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height Cancelling Those Oil “Subsidies” From Heritage: For instance, the unfair tax break that makes up nearly half of what Obama calls “subsidies” is the manufacturing tax credit. All manufacturers except the oil and gas industry get to deduct 9 percent of their revenues before calculating their tax bills. [...]

Daily Glimpse March 2, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, March 2, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height The President Attacks Charitable Deductions Again. How far would Obama’s proposal cause total itemized contributions to fall? Experts predict up to $5.6 billion each year. This is only a small percentage of total annual charitable donations, but it is more than the annual operating budgets of the Ameri­can Cancer Society, [...]

Daily Glimpse February 29, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, February 29, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height Light Blogging Today Between the dental work yesterday and a deadline assignment at work today, time’s going to be tight. Energy Meets The Invisible Hand Yes, it really does work: This is because gas prices are low, and oil prices are high.  We now have about 3x as [...]

Daily Glimpse February 28, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, February 28, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height Great Debates: Unlimited Liability Banking Bankers then and now: Given the growth of unlimited liability banking in the past and the plethora of Americans living lives of quiet desperation in the present, I suspect that the risks of unlimited liability banking could in fact attract many, many small [...]

Daily Glimpse February 27, 2012

by Joshua Sharf | 6:30 pm, February 27, 2012

Daily Links From Glimpse From a Height Pals to Egypt, Israel: Let’s You And Him Fight Strategy Page: If Egypt went to war with Israel, the Palestinians would benefit. Obviously, these folks have ignored the lessons of history. If the Egyptian army goes after Israel, the Egyptians will be defeated. Gaza, caught in the middle, [...]

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