By Denis Pombriant on May 21, 2012
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is in trouble. So is David Cameron, Prime minister of Great Britain though not as much. Merkel has an election looming and both have been caught on the wrong side of the most important political-economic issue of the generation, the continuing depression and joblessness plaguing Europe and to a lesser […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Austerity, Current Affairs, economics, G8, Hollande, keynes, Krugman, macroeconomics, Merkel, obama, Sarkozy, stimulus |
By Denis Pombriant on October 21, 2011
The economy appears to be on the minds of magazine editors these days and no wonder. With the stimulus running out the economy appears to be headed south again. This contradicts my experience last week in Silicon Valley where the CEOs I met with said they were, 1) Raising more money, not because they need […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Current Affairs, economics, keynes, salesforce.com, Silicon Valley, stimulus, The Economist, The New Yorker, unemployment
By Denis Pombriant on March 14, 2011
Recently I wrote a couple of posts about Apple’s plan to charge vendors 30% of the transaction price for anything sold through the Apple Store (aka App Store). For many things like software and songs I think this makes a lot of sense. If you consider that the SG&A line of a […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged apple, billing, CRM, economics, John Maynard Keynes, journalism, keynes, publishing, robber baron, Subscription billing, technology