Mar 25 2008
The Silver Lining in Low Consumer Sentiment
Everywhere I look today I’m finding results from newly published studies and indexes’ showing that American consumer confidence is in the toilet. Here are a few that caught my eye:
The Consumer Confidence Index
(CCI) plunged to 64.5 in March (down from 76.4 in February), the lowest since a 61.4 reading just before the Iraq invasion [...]
Mar 19 2008
Convincing Grandpa to Give up his Drivers License
When I heard this story on NPR about
what Japanese police are doing to get people over the age of 65 to give up their driver’s licenses I thought to myself, what a great concept.Basically, the way it works is that businesses offer incentives to these aging senior, such as free delivery from department stores [...]





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