This is a challenge to CEOs in general and those who are clearly overpaid. Activists are targeting these executives, their boards and their companies. The SEC-mandated rule that the pay ratio between top and bottom workers be published annually has served to spotlight the discrepancy in remuneration. The problem is chronic. CEOs don’t want to […]
Posted on February 26th, 2020 by admin
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Amazon has a never-ending PR challenge — fake goods. Among its tens of thousands of vendors are scammers who manufacture inferior knock-offs of products and offer them on the Amazon site. Amazon is aware of the problem and working to get rid of cheats, but it might be too large for the company to do […]
Posted on February 25th, 2020 by admin
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President’s Day was a chance to extend a holiday into a week off. The vacation days were spent away from the media but for a newspaper on one day. There was no intrusion of politics, caucuses, Trumpisms, fires, robberies, homicides and anything else that contorts the mind. It was splendid with a pile of reading […]
Posted on February 24th, 2020 by admin
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Japan is headed into another recession. The country has never recovered from the crash of the early 90s. Banks never took write-downs for bad loans and the government never faced the truth about over-leveraged positions. It is instructive to remember the PR that Japan had in the late 1970s and 1980s. At that time, Japan […]
Posted on February 17th, 2020 by admin
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One way to generate publicity is to design a prototype — what an object will look like in the future. Every manufacturer does it, and this is just a recent example of what a future airliner might be. Will it ever be built? Probably not. It is a researcher’s and designer’s fantasy. There are all […]
Posted on February 13th, 2020 by admin
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Presidential candidate Joe Biden is sinking and is in dire need of a boost. One wonders if he can get it when he uses phrases like this to accuse citizens of lying. Biden says it is a line from a movie, a John Wayne western, and he has used it before. It makes no difference. […]
Posted on February 12th, 2020 by admin
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A challenge to politicians is the period when they are lame ducks. They have either been voted out of office, voluntarily stepped down or are near the end of their final term. They can propose changes but legislators can wait them out or vote them down without repercussion. The bureaucracy has turned against them in […]
Posted on February 11th, 2020 by admin
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The coronavirus raging in China has been the source of panic buying of masks, of mass quarantines, of hoarding, of business closures throughout China and cruise ship embargos in the US. There is a real question whether the public has been consumed by hysteria or whether the virus is as dangerous as it seems to be. […]
Posted on February 10th, 2020 by admin
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This is what social media have become. They are a cesspool of propaganda, disinformation, innuendo and outright lies. We could cry woe, but we must remember that all those negatives existed long before online became a reality. They were purveyed on paper, radio and television. Some of the ugliest untruths were in print during the […]
Posted on February 8th, 2020 by admin
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President Trump was acquitted last evening but not before theatrics at the State of the Union the night before. The SOTU ended with Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping a copy to Trump’s speech in half on national TV. Yesterday in a closed-door Democratic meeting, she vented her bile against the President. Social media went into a […]
Posted on February 6th, 2020 by admin
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