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...outcome. "A society with no income differential," he writes, "would have no vitality." Abe has little direct economic experience, but that may not matter, says Robert Feldman, Morgan Stanley's co-director for Japan research, if he builds a strong cabinet. "Will he do things the bureaucrats tell him, because he appoints ministers who are docile?" asks Feldman, who hopes Abe will go outside the government for his appointments?as Koizumi did. "[Abe] has to demonstrate that he is as tough as Koizumi...
After Trading Up, I talked to a lot of people about new luxury, and consumers?mostly women?would say, "You only got half the story. You got the trade-up part, but in order for me to afford to trade up, I cut corners." They would tell me stories about particular treasures that they had found. So the book became a demonstration of the fact that the middle-class consumer is actually saving money...
...have actually taken shopping to a scientific level. They've become experts in terms of the promotional cadence of stores and acquiring prized goods at discounted prices. If you stop a middle-class female and say to her, "Here's a list of 100 items in the grocery store. Tell me the prices," she will be able to tell you the prices on 100 common items, plus or minus...
Women have a different communication style than men. They talk to one another about shopping behaviors, and they share their secrets. What we learned in our research is that every time you satisfy a consumer, she's actually going to tell 10 of her friends. Every time you dissatisfy a consumer, she's going to repeat the story to as many as 300 people...
Terrorism and war may be dominating the debate in Washington, but step outside the Beltway, and politicians will tell you that voters have other things on their mind. G.O.P. pollster David Winston says the group of swing voters to watch this year is the one he calls "maxed-out moms," the married women with children who were a big part of George W. Bush's re-election in 2004 but are now anxious and angry. What they want, he says, is relief from the squeeze of higher health-care bills, skyrocketing gas prices, credit-card debt, higher property taxes...