Strategic Immigration
There is often much said on strategic immigration and the competitive battle for the world’s most gifted workers. A recent interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the Detroit Free Press drives home the negative externalities from limiting the brightest from our shores. Ballmer discusses why in 2007 Microsoft built an R&D facility in Vancouver – just over the […]
A Lack of Confidence Can be Very Contagious
Recently I’ve been asked repeatedly about the current state of Europe. I’ve said since January that 2012 was going to be marked by periods of volatility – stressing that European issues would be a key catalyst to those periods of volatility (energy prices have also contributed to uneasiness – something I’ll say more on at […]
Store Traffic Will be One of the Biggest Hurdles this Holiday
Some are predicting store traffic will fall (again) this year.
Using Events to Drive Retail Traffic
BestBuy is apparently holding iPad supply so they will presumably have enough supply on stock and in the stores for an “upcoming event.” This highlights the delicate nature of retailing today. Physical media is no longer the traffic driver it once was, but today’s traffic drivers aren’t providing the margin that retailers need so events have become the focus to drive […]
on Gov’t Shutdowns
Here are the last 11 government shutdowns. The average closing is just 5 days – and excluding in the December 1995 closing, the average is only 3.2 The Government will be open again next week. [table id=8 /]