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...Then there's the fact that an executive's normally sound judgment can quickly cloud over when it comes to sports. "A lot of [sponsors] have been involved in football on the basis of someone's hobby," says Simon Chadwick, a professor of Sport Business Strategy and Marketing at Coventry Business School. When the boss of one leading British firm opted to back a poorly performing English cricket team in recent years, "people were asking 'Why?'" Chadwick says. "The fact was [the boss] was a big cricket fan. That was the only reason." At the least, such vanity can leave...
...Johnson had access to Palin and her family that a reporter could only dream about now, although even some of her candid statements sound eerily like late-2008 talking points. Referring to her unsuccessful run for the lieutenant governorship of Alaska in 2002, Palin told the author, "There was a lot of talk about the fact that I didn't have years of experience. Leadership shouldn't be based on years of public experience - it should be based on vision and example...
...week? "It's a buying opportunity!" "It's a short term blip!" A new report by Bernstein Global Wealth management notes that booms and busts often result in "unduly pronounced security mispricing," meaning, we tend to overdo things. Take banks, which were crushed in 1990 by real estate losses. (Sound familiar?) Ultimately, the game reset and bank stocks zoomed 199% through 1996, outpacing...
...rarely misses an opportunity to sound the Yanqui alarm when doing so has domestic political benefit. Critics, who are questioning whether the alleged coup plot was actually real, were quick to suggest that this latest anti-gringo outburst would conveniently deflect attention away from allegedly incriminating evidence against Chávez and his government emerging in an international corruption trial that began this month in Miami. The case involves a suitcase filled with $800,000 in cash that was seized at the Buenos Aires airport in the summer of 2007, allegedly being delivered on behalf...
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