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Tag: Service industries

  • Fatal Decline of the Imperial Power

    A previous article, “Challenging China,” described the mixed and managed economy that enables China (PRC) to overcome the economic pressures posed by an overly contentious America. More to it. China’s mixed and managed economy is designed to match its stage of development and is well managed. The U.S. non-managed economy has no design and does […]

  • The Taylor Swift Exploitation Machine

    She doesn’t love you, she doesn’t care for you, and she doesn’t know you.  But does her team pretend to, confecting an image of faux empathy and interest, sorting out the wheat from the chaff.  The predatory, fan sucking phenomenon of the Taylor Swift marketing machine is something to behold.  Leaving aside the sort of […]

  • Big Pharma and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising

    Since 1997, the U.S. is one of only two countries (the other being New Zealand) that allows direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising for health products like medications and procedures. Such DTC advertising in the U.S. increased from $2.1 billion in 1997 to $9.6 billion in 2016 — and continues to rise. And you wonder why two-thirds of […]

  • Ticketing Woes

    What is it about government contracts that produces the worst results and poorest returns? Those clods behind such deals, notably in the poison chaliced field of public transport, seem so utterly incapable at even modest competence. In public transport, muddles, bungling and oh so much fumbling are common; the whole show comes into view when […]

  • The Rise of the Consultant Governing Class

    The Rise of the Consultant Governing Class

    They have become the outsourcing mandarins, consultancy companies which have served to degrade expertise in the public sector while diminishing the quality of services. Along the way, they have charged astronomical fees in giving repeatedly flawed advice. Consultants, packaged as all wise gurus, have become the great confidence tricksters. Embracing the inner voodoo of consultancy […]

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