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• Tucker Carlson to launch right wing Huffington Post :: Yawn…
• Hillary Clinton not making a lot of progress in retiring her campaign debt :: Not that she isn’t busy being Secretary of State or anything.
• Canadians are dragging around a lot of consumer debt :: The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada says families – including retirees – are getting deeper into debt to pay day-to-day expenses and interest on their debt, just as the economy has downshifted into recession after 17 years of growth. :: This is a kind of scary statement when you think about it.  Canadians lived beyond their means during the good times and now we have to pay up for it during a recession.
• Why Circuit City failed and why B&H thrives :: The most amazing thing is that I have often gone into B&H to purchase a specific product, only to be talked into something cheaper. For example, once I went in to buy a field video monitor to use for some interviews I was conducting. I expected to pay $600 until the salesperson said, "Why don’t you just get one of these cheap consumer portable DVD players? They have video inputs, they work just as well, and they’re under $100." This was no accident. "The entire premise of our store is based upon your ability to come in, touch, feel, experiment, ask, and discuss your needs without sales pressure," B&H’s website says.
• Consumeristic Church, New York style :: He runs a tight, corporate-style church. Years ago he visited American Express and said he wanted to see its customer-service training program. The Amex people wanted to know the business he was in, and he said a church. This was an odd one, they thought, but they gave it to him.  For 10 years, he schooled his staff in handling parishioners like credit-card customers. Right up until he decided he liked Disney World’s ways even better. “Now,” he said, “we say, ‘FedEx-fast, Disney-friendly.’ ”
• David beats Goliath according to Malcolm Gladwell

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