Best Superbowl ad since 1984. I alternated between shouting ‘Hell Yeah!’ and crying. This is the message Chrysler needed to give, Detroit needed to give, and America needed to hear. Assisted by Eminem just underscores the point.
Category: America 3.0
Paulson Real Estate Recovery Fund
Brilliant strategy. Just brilliant. “One of the fund’s main strategies is to buy undeveloped tracts of land that already have environmental and building permits. Roads, sewers and electricity may also be in place, but not homes, according to one of the people familiar with the fund. If the real-estate market recovers enough for developers to […]
Trade Perspectives
“Total U.S. trade with the rest of the world (sales of U.S. products to consumers and firms in other countries PLUS purchases of foreign production by American consumers and businesses) reached a 22-month high of $354.1 billion in August, the highest level since October 2008, and 44% above the April 2009 cyclical low of $246 […]
Unanimous Support for Unlicensed White Spaces
“The Federal Communications Commission voted 5-0 today to adopt rules for using the airwaves, known as white spaces.” Some ridiculous NPR story yesterday complained that the crowded nature of metropolitan airwaves prevent this from being useful to the vast majority of Americans. The point isn’t urban America – the benefit is to rural America. My […]
Take California
If there’s a state in the union synonymous with the modern American Dream – it’s California 1. For the past twenty years, every vocation or avocation I’ve been interested in has had a significant pull from California. There’s now some evidence California is becoming less attractive to do business in. “The top states gaining our […]
2010: The Great Restart
I could stare at this image all day. Continually riding its roller coaster in my head – watching geo-political events, holidays, elections, and family gatherings, all unfold. Whether we call it the Great Recession or the Great Nominal Spending Crash1 – I don’t think we’ve seen the interesting part yet. I predict a dramatic recovery […]
March Forth
I’m proposing today as new American holiday. A day of deliberate action. A day of buckled-down confidence. A day of bootstrap-up-pulling. A day of To-Done-ed-ness. A day of recovery. The opposite of Labor Day – more along the lines of Independence Day. Let’s go, there’s work to do. March Forth. “This country will be rescued […]
A popular Democrat becomes President during one of the worst economic downturns
I’m reading The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. While parallels with pre-1950s America are always tenuious, here’s a synopsis A popular Democrat becomes President during one of the worst economic downturns in our nation’s history. He drives through some of the most dramatic legislation ever seen and creating departments compensating farmers […]
In Bigger News: FCC Opens White Space & Frees iPhone
I was always baffled by Apple exclusively giving the iPhone to AT&T. It’s not in Apple’s DNA to tie the customer experience of their products to someone else. Exclusively or otherwise. Multi-year or otherwise. Apple’s built their reputation on owning and controlling the entire stack; OS, applications, hardware. Hell, Apple’s never been crazy about having […]
America 3.0
1776. America is born. 1945. America claims the leadership of the developed world. 2008. America reclaims its position. (more tomorrow.)