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In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.B.D.O., decided to write a book in which he shared his creative secrets. At the time, B.B.D.O. was widely regarded as the most innovative firm on Madison Avenue. Born in 1888, Osborn had spent much of his career in Buffalo, where he started out working in newspapers, and his life at B.B.D.O. began when he teamed up with another young adman he’d met volunteering for the United War Work Campaign. By the forties, he was one of the industry’s grand old men, ready to pass on the lessons he’d learned. His book “Your Creative Power” was published in 1948.
Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work
Jeffrey Goldberg
In the New York Times , Jeffrey Sachs thinks Nigeria has a historic opportunity… to do more or less what he has been telling countries like Nigeria to do for decades now: liberalize their economies, share the pain, and achieve prosperity. Shock Therapy! “I’ve watched nations on the eve of economic takeoff, in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia,” he writes.
The Nigerian Harmattan?
Jeff Sachs
Adam Davidson, the 1%’s Lord Haw-Haw, Fellates Wall Street
Although I endeavor to treat high dudgeon as an art form, it is difficult to find words adequate to convey the level of ridicule and opprobrium that Adam Davidson’s latest New York Times piece, “ What Does Wall Street Do for You? ” deserves. I had the vast misfortune to come across it late last week, and have gotten an unusually large volume of incredulous reader e-mails about it.
National Security Spending, Not Entitlements, "Run Amok"
Once again, Jeff Sachs takes on the editorial page of the WSJ and tries to expose the "big lie of our time" (or one of them anyway): How the Wall Street Journal Misleads About Federal Jobs, by Jeff Sachs : The editorial board of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal has a simple game. They want to cut taxes for the rich and government services for the rest, and end regulations of banks and the environment. They support taxpayer-financed bailouts of Wall Street when needed. They will twist any facts in the service of these goals.
Thomas Friedman
Francis Fukuyama