Tag Archives: Business and Economics

News analysis: A class action lawsuit in Pa. proceeds while Maryland passes a law mandating health care

The cost incurred for this self-indulgence grows on a daily basis. Unless we are careful we will soon find ourselves with a bill that we will not be able to pay.

If we want to return to the spirit of the original one-man one voice concept of the Athenians we have a lot of work to do.

As with more urgent matters like health care and global warming, the US has been and remains well behind the times in pocket-change convenience.

A new Harris Poll confirms the common understanding that the United States is a nation steeped in the core beliefs of Christianity, all of which continue to be held by a large majority of the nation today. Spreading belief around the Invisible Cafeteria a bit, significant minorities of Americans also …

People are out to dismantle Christmas as we know it! You’ve got film director and evangelical atheist Brian Flemming declaring “War on Christianity” as part of a marketing campaign for his The God Who Wasn’t There film. “No Christmas pageant or Nativity display is safe from our troops,” says Flemming. …

Being caught up in the daily frenzy of activity that is the Internet, where a year is a generation, it’s easy for me to forget that less than ten years ago there was no Internet advertising industry at all, and that less than five years ago the notion of advertising …

It’s all relative isn’t it? To the world’s poorest citizens living lives on the bleakest edge of subsistence, the lives of America’s most disaffected homeless might seem regal; and the ladder rises to the working poor, middle class, upper middle class, and affluent. We looked at a marketing research company …

Last week I heard prognosticators opine that the opening blast of the holiday shopping season has shifted from the traditional brick-and-mortar Black Friday to Cyber Monday for online retailers, because so many online shoppers, who tend to be younger, use their work computers to make their cyber-purchases, and people don’t …

Martin says consumers should be able to select cable channels à la carte.