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rffrydr
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Damn straight. And, no you can't anything but "The Big Game" as we saw that ad got pulled from YouTube after it ran...for exactly that reason.
And what was the follow-up ad? NFL lottery, with "average joe" bathing in a tub of gold. That's the message we need to send out right Mr. family values (no more birdies at halftime) National Football League.
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| Hey, Clint Eastwood said it during the Super Bowl... "We can't be knocked out with one punch. We sill get right back up again." Oh wait... am I allowed to say "Super Bowl" in a post, or do I have to pay the NFL? I guess I will just go with "The Big Game". |
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rffrydr
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....but you'd have the 2X4s and sheetrock--and the mortgage that goes with it!
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| I heard tha tif you go into someone's appartment and remove anything that was not made in the USA, you whould have a pair of candlesticks and some empty McDonalds bags. I am sure this is an exaggeration, but it is kind of eye opening. |
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rffrydr
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"Making It in America," nice case study in the complex calculus that goes into making stuff here vs. there. The Macro is obvious. But, as we all have learned by now, ...the Lord works in mysterious ways:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/making-it-in-america/8844/
| Quote: | | (There’s a joke in cotton country that a modern textile mill employs only a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.) |
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But what's lost is still and forever will be.... lost:
https://stuftpizza.patronpath.com
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....and to prove the point:
http://www.economist.com/node/21542451
Out the mouths of babes!
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Interesting take on globalization from a curious source:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-18/america-s-dirty-war-against-manufacturing-part-1-carl-pope.html
I doubt that tax policy is so big and labor so little (certainly not the case with GM); but behind this message is a firm acceptance of Industrial Policy and OWS attitude towards it at the same time. The truth is it's a balancing act that will never be in balance.
N.B. the line about 10% lost to theft at chip plant built right into the business plan.
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Profit is YOUR reward--not it's own. Lutz's book is out, which apart from the auto industry, really describes the dark side of the rise of the professional--an historical shift already seen in the movies in the mid-sixties. De-risking and numerology based on the quarterly clock get you not much in the end--and might even pull you down.
Here he is with Wilbur Ross:
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000027032
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Getting the kids back into it:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/10/school-for-hackers/8218/
| Quote: | ... deeper level than do their traditional counterparts, and are more deeply engaged in their work.” In The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely, a behavioral psychologist at Duke University, recounts his experiments with students about DIY’s effect on well-being and concludes that creating more of the things we use in daily life measurably increases our “feelings of pride and ownership.” In the long run, it also changes for the better our patterns of thinking and learning.
Unfortunately, says Gray, our schools don’t teach kids how to make things, but instead train them to become scholars, “in the narrowest sense of the word, meaning someone who spends their time reading and writing. Of course, most people are not scholars. We survive by doing things.” |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/magazine/icelands-big-economic-thaw.html?_r=1&hp
| Quote: | | ...first, it was all going splendidly for Guffi as he Rollerbladed down Laugavegur Street with voluptuous girlfriends and sold and resold the same luxury cars. Then he became tired — exhausted, really. He was working 13-hour days. “Do you know how much time it takes to bring all those papers to the bank every time someone takes out a loan for a car?” he asked me. The girlfriends also proved enervating. “I found girls on the Internet; that’s heavy work. You’re reading all these stupid letters that they send.” By the time the crash hit, in late 2008, Guffi was relieved. Nowadays he sells fewer cars; he no longer regularly earns more money each time he sells the same car, but he still gets a commission, and his lifestyle is simpler. “I do nothing stupid, and then I have no stress,” he explained happily. “I have no more Ukrainian or Swiss girlfriends. I have an Icelandic woman now.” |
| Quote: | | The prevailing sense was that it was a waste of time to invent things yourself when you could just “buy innovation from someone else.” The boom, Gudjonsson concluded, “made us lazy thinkers.” |
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Housing: back to basics.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chicago-vineyard-20110501,0,7820754.story
| Quote: | Now he wants to turn a boarded-up 19th century mansion, one of Chicago's last surviving examples of a multi-acre country estate, into a winery.
And he doesn't want to import the grapes.
He wants to plant about 5,000 vines in the yard — about three bombed-out-looking blocks along the Dan Ryan Expressway. A local winemaker is interested too — assuming the soil isn't contaminated. |
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The end of the "cluster"? Though this article is about Italy (and applies especially to these "craftsman" oriented mini-economies) is it really about all manufacturing? There's a reason why it's called "Silicon Valley"--and a further irony, it is how chinese manufacturing is orgainzed around townships in regions (button town e.g.)--and this very organization is somewhere inside what makes a corporation tick.
http://www.economist.com/node/18560669?story_id=18560669
Where it survives? Intel?....Detroit??
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