Jeff Rusinow

Ever wanted to search for your version of ‘perfect weather’ in the U.S. by location, temperature or time of year? Well you can now with a website I started recently called PerfectWeather.com. It’s in beta, and it’s pretty cool in that you can select important parameters involving all sorts of things that could help [...]

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Hillary Clinton will stop at nothing to get the prize.  She is shameless in saying John McCain is worthy and her fellow Democrat is not.
Barack Obama better start getting some backbone.  To allow Howard Wolfson to characterize Obama’s pushing for disclosure of the Clintons financials as Ken Starr-like and let him get away with it, [...]

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I’ve posted on this topic before, but in the last twelve hours, it’s really hit me again:  the creation and continuing elongation of the Long Tail of products and services is making it incredibly challenging to the ‘producers of product’, and providing to consumers an extraordinary explosion of ‘choice.’  Last night we went to see the [...]

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Not sure this will make it to mainstream media, but there is a very interesting study conducted at Tufts University which is published in the recent issue of Psychological Science (courtesy of Al Kraemer).  To the chase,  ratings of power-related traits from CEO faces, after controlling for age, affect and attractiveness, were significantly related to [...]

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Rarely in recent years have we read or heard about a possible shift with American consumers and their savings/spending behaviors.  It’s mostly ‘compared to other countries, we’re pretty lousy savers.’   The February 29 Merrill Lynch Market Economist suggests that a major shift is happening:
Borrowers are also behaving differently 
Not only are the lenders behaving differently, [...]

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