Tag Archive: Americans

  1. The Markets

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    So here we are, still faced with a huge deficit, and although it has come down over the past few years, it is now showing signs of flat-lining and even rising slightly. The Tories claim they have the answer, and I expect Mr Milliband says the same although he just forgot to mention it, and we await somewhat wearily the views of the others. So are we stuck in a funk and unable to retrieve the situation and just doomed to be sucked into the Slough of Despond?
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  2. What’s In An Ad?

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    If you were one of the millions of people watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, then you probably got an eyeful of some of the most enticing advertisements television has to offer. They better be! According to experts, the average cost of a 30-second Super Bowl commercial was expected to be about $4 million this year. That’s right – $4 million – up from about $3.8 million last year. Of course, it was predicted more than 100 million people would watch the game and that’s a sizeable audience! (more…)

  3. If you’ve been lamenting the state of America, take heart….

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    They’re still really good at some things. For example, they have more entrepreneurs – people who organise and operate businesses – than any other country in the world. About one of every 13 Americans is an entrepreneur, according to The Economist. That’s almost 7.5 percent of the population! The Netherlands isn’t too far behind in the ratio of entrepreneurs to population at large (about 6.5 percent). However, less than 4 percent of us Brits are entrepreneurs and less than 3 percent of the citizens of France, Sweden, and Germany are so inclined.

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  4. The Markets

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    Americans are experiencing déjà vu all over again. Sure, the prospect of another fiscal showdown doesn’t electrify a crowd like a Rugby World Cup final against the Aussies. All the same, investors’ response to the possibility the U.S. government might partially shut down on October 1 was muted. Some U.S. stock markets gave back a little for the week; others moved higher. All remained up year-to-date. 

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