We’re coming up to the end of the calendar year 2011 and many of us are closing our books. In two more days it will be the end of the financial cycle for most individuals… and many corporations and partnerships, too. Whatever quantity of income we’ve earned — whether in the form of salaries, benefits, [...]
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End Them, Don’t Mend Them <FANTASTIC article on the true cost of public education (true immediate cost, which is vastly understated, and true long term cost, which is often ignored). Hat tip to Glenn Warren / Stephen Dill, on this discussion.
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There’s a lot of talk this time of year about retail sales, consumer spending and what this means for The Economy. With this talk comes statistics, and with these statistics come the classic metric of traditional retail, Same-Store Sales , or as I like to call it, Seam Sore Stales (Stale Sore Seams? Stole Sears Mare?). [...]
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I’ve been honing in on my “soft” skills for the past week, so the analyst in me is just rarin’ to go and crunch some numbers. Rather than channel this energy for any real useful purpose, however, I decided to take a look at the U.S. Postal Service’s little innovation called the Forever Stamp. In brief: [...]
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Two new articles just came out regarding the IAB’s pressuring of comScore / NetRating to have their panel methodologies audited. 1) “The Travails of Tracking Web Traffic” by Catherine Holahan (BusinessWeek, April 30, 2007) 2) “IAB Call for Audits: Transparency or Conspiracy?” by Kate Kaye (ClickZ News, April 20, 2007) Both articles mention one of the [...]
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